On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 21:36 +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote:
I'm not sure * why extralibs still uses QC1, * whether QC2 is ready for production use, or * whether QC is actively maintained. Any light would be greatly appreciated!
And one thing about it which concerns me somewhat is that it seems to want to remain compatible with old versions of things at the expense of taking advantage of new features in the current libraries. That might make sense for a package that is independently distributed but not for one that is bundled with Haskell implementations and the latest versions of all dependent libraries. My concrete example is that I submitted patches to make Gen an instance of Applicative but was told this wasn't ok since it needed to remain compatible with ghc-6.2 or something. IMOH, if it's part of the core set of packages it should be ok to depend on those packages. If QC (either 1 or 2) it is governed by the library submission process then I'll resubmit my patches with an appropriate proposal. Duncan