>From http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2014-April/022595.html
> * You are committing to keeping the API stable. Which means long term (years) forward and backward compatibility: > ** Clients written to your API today should continue to compile and work against future versions of the API, several years running. > ** Clients written to your API today should be able to, without much trouble, work with the past few (2? 3?) releases of the platform. I imagine this is very hard to follow if we want to keep up with GHC (which I do!) - Adam On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Roman Cheplyaka <r...@ro-che.info> wrote: > <d00ni...@chalmers.se> > Bcc: > Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: haskell-src-exts-1.15.0 > Reply-To: > In-Reply-To: <CA+FqJiEeZ3xmBBYdyor4fvQo66RHvPgV9Po8wF78XXV= > lkh...@mail.gmail.com> > > * Conrad Parker <con...@metadecks.org> [2014-04-14 13:41:44+1000] > > On 14 April 2014 07:33, Roman Cheplyaka <r...@ro-che.info> wrote: > > > > > I'm pleased to announce the release of haskell-src-exts-1.15.0! > > > > > > Hackage: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/haskell-src-exts-1.15.0 > > > GitHub: https://github.com/haskell-suite/haskell-src-exts > > > > > > > > Hi platformers, > > > > what's the process to get haskell-src-exts into the platform, preferably > > replacing haskell-src? > > I don't think haskell-src-exts satisfies the stability requirements of the > platform. > > E.g. there are a few breaking changes that'll probably go into the next > release. > > Besides, the AST necessarily changes constantly due to the evolution of the > language itself. > > OTOH, I've just had a look at > http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/AddingPackages, > and it doesn't mention stability at all. > > It's really up to the platform people to decide whether you want a Haskell > parser in HP, and what the requirements for it should be. Just wanted to > clarify > that bit, so that it doesn't come as a surprise. > > > I'm the nominal (inactive-unless-prodded) maintainer of haskell-src. It > > hasn't had any updates in years other than cabal bounds, and it's > unlikely > > to ever support any recent ghc extensions. I don't think we should be > > promoting haskell-src for new projects at all. > > Agreed. > > Roman > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-platform mailing list > Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org > http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform >
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