On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 10:24 +0200, Ketil Malde wrote: > Not of the same gravity as mtl, but I was a bit surprised to see that > PackedString was included, in spite of it being marked as deprecated > on Hackage.
TemplateHaskell still uses it. There was not a lot we could do for the first release. Similarly for old-time. > Presumably, this is because some other library depends on this, but I > think platform-blessing a deprecated library is a strange thing to > do. If the functionality cannot be replaced in the dependent, could > it be an option to simply integrate the PS functionality? That's not possible as it is part of the interface. > Or should it be de-deprecated? I think it should remain deprecated and we should work on the replacement so that TH can switch its dependency. Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
