I.e. move Distribution.Version code that is not deprecated and not parsing- or pretty printing related (these depend on other Cabal modules). On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Administrator wrote:

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Hi,

Can we derive Data for Data.Version.Version? It would benefit Cabal.

Thanks, David

On a related note, what about also moving some (maybe all) of the nice Distribution.Version related functions from the Cabal package to Data.Version? I am sure other libraries would also be interested in using this functionality without having to include Cabal as a whole. One example is the Ghc runtime itself: this could be one small step in removing dependencies from Ghc to Cabal.