Ian Lynagh
Ryan Newton wrote:
So it seems random was due for an overhaul. I would like to initiate a discussion period to talk about what changes should happen before the next major release. I think this is timely because there is *already* a pending backwards-incompatible change in the API (factoring out the SplittableGen class) http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4314. We might as well make any other fixes now and make all the changes at once.
I believe the only reason we're shipping random with ghc is that haskell98 and haskell2010 depend on it. ... snip...
Perhaps we should fork random as old-random
This would probably imply the next Haskell' release not specifying System.Random.
Any thoughts?
H2010 already doesn't specify Random, unless I missed something. H98 needs patching already now that the Splittable patch was accepted (or did someone already do this?). I've never liked the "old-*" package renaming as that already introduces (minor) breakage and doesn't seem to encourage people to move forward. Why avoid using versioning and build-deps for this (adding a version bound is similar work to adding "old-")? Cheers, Thomas