There is currently an old QuickCheck version in the standard hierarchy
in Test.QuickCheck. As the new QuickCheck is incompatible with the old
one, I do not want to override that place. Rather, I would like to
create my own little space in the hierarchy where the new version can
sit and develop.
If you intend the new version as a replacement for the old, then it
should be called Test.QuickCheck, and the package should identify itself
as a newer version (2.0, or whatever). It's possible to have multiple
versions of a package simultaneously installed (at least with GHC).
Currently it isn't possible to use them both in the same program, but we
intend to allow that in the future.
The new QuickCheck is not a replacement for the old. For one, it is
incompatible (in some trivial ways, but still). I don't want peoples
programs or other libraries to break just because they rely on the old
QuickCheck.
Frederik mentioned "mounting", a concept which is also known as
"grafting", which would allow you the user to move modules around in the
hierarchy, and it would free the package author from deciding once and
for all what absolute module names to use. This is the direction we
plan to go in for GHC, I'm not sure when it will happen though.
OK.
So, I'll just decide an arbitrary name/place and then later migrate to
this new thing.
/Koen
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