Claus Reinke wrote:
Btw, are the exception changes meant to lead to another round
of library breakage/updates, or is this just the compatibility mode
not yet being in place?
We're planning to have some backwards compatibility in place for the 6.10.1
release (maybe I'd get a chance to work on it if you folks would stop
sending emails I need to reply to :-p).
What we plan to do is provide a package called base-3.x in addition to
base-4.x. base-3.x will depend on base-4.x, but have the same API as the
existing base-3.x in GHC 6.8.
Packages that explicitly depend on base-3.x will continue to work.
Unfortunately these are few and far between, despite our warnings after the
6.8 release. So in order to keep most packages working we intend to try
building the whole of Hackage, identify those packages that have been
broken by API changes, and fix their .cabal files in the Hackage database.
This will mean that packages installed by cabal-install will work, but if
you download the tarball and try to build with Cabal it might still fail.
I think that's the best we can do for now, though.
Cheers,
Simon
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