On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Ian Lynagh
<ian@well-typed.com> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:06:22AM -0400, Ben Gamari wrote:
>
> 2) We decide it is acceptable to break users code multiple times, drop
> the Monoid instance and reintroduce the new instance after some
> delay. The length of this delay could range from no delay at all
> (allowing folks to quickly move to the new instance, although
> potentially unwittingly) to several months (hoping that most users
> will realize the change during this window).
If we're talking about containers, if you want a meaningful delay, you'd
probably need at least one GHC+HP major release with no instance, and
and then the new instance would come with the next GHC+HP major release.
i.e. the delay would be at least a year.
Thanks
Ian