On 2015-10-08 at 00:08:43 +0200, Andrey Chudnov wrote:

My e-mail was rejected from libraries@haskell.org (the official maintenance contact of the two packages in question), so I'm trying my luck here instead. Hoping I can get some answers on the following questions:

1. What is the status of `haskell2010` and `haskell98` packages? Are they supported? Deprecated? In need of new maintainers?

Short answer: with GHC 7.10 it is not possible anymore to implement a proper[1] `haskell98` or `haskell2010` package anymore. More details can be found at https://ghc.haskell.org/ticket/9590

2. Assuming the answer to the previous question is "alive and well", are there any plans to release new versions of those for GHC 7.10 and beyond?

In order to be able to recover support for a `haskell2010` package in newer GHCs, GHC will need to be extended in some way. I can think of two different paths to pursue to accomplish this, depending on whether type(classes) need to be shared with `base` or not. Moreover, it wasn't clear how much actual demand there really is to have the recent GHCs support a legacy `haskell2010` mode. So if there's somebody interested in resuscitating a `haskell98`/`haskell2010` package, please tell us what your use-case is (to help understand whether type(class) sharing w/ `base` is essential or not -- it's *much* more easier to get this working w/o the typeclass sharing requirement, whereas the typeclass-sharing variant might not even be possible at all) Cheers, hvr [1]: I.e. with the requirement that all code written conforming to the respective Haskell Report will be compileable via e.g. ghc -XHaskell2010 -hide-all-packages -package haskell2010 -c *.hs (to some degree, this was already broken before GHC 7.10 due to the superclass-removal on `Num`, but with AMP this was broken beyond tolerance)