On Sun, 28 Feb 2021 19:37:38 +0000 Edward Z Yang <ezy...@mit.edu> wrote:
> As a more general thought: I noticed in a few other situations where > traditional PVP does a poor job at addressing situations where API > stability depends on packages you yourself depend on. For example, > let's say I wanted to make a metapackage that took a few packages and > reexported their modules. You don't even have to talk about the > module level: at the declaration level, what identifiers are > available from this package will depend on the version choices of its > dependencies. But it's infeasible to publish combinatorially many > versions of the metapackage for each possible version of its > dependency Revisions make this a bit more bearable. But still, backpack aside, I'd say that cross-package module reexports are an antipattern exactly for this reason! _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
