Re: Haskell Platform proposal: Add the vector package

On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 4:14 AM, Henning Thielemann wrote:

I thought about migrating storablevector to vector, but it seems that the vector package needs some GHC-only extensions like type families. I do not plan to make the storablevector package obsolete, but I think it would be useful if both packages would use the same datatype. Is it possible to put the Storable part of 'vector' into a separate package? Would this one be more portable?

I'll let Roman address this. I suggest we consider this a separately from whether we should add vector to the platform (perhaps we should start a new thread from that.) -- Johan