17 Sep
2010
17 Sep
'10
6:35 a.m.
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:29:46AM -0400, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote:
On 9/16/10 10:21 , Duncan Coutts wrote:
does not know what to do. It's much more work for them to discover that this new package monads-fd was just added to the platform and it seems to provide the same modules.
Wasn't the original notion to leave monads-fd as is and have mtl-2 re-export monads-fd?
It was, but installing two packages providing modules with the same name makes problems for people using ghci or ghc --make, and the suggestion of hiding mtl was criticized as too disruptive. Hence the revised plan.