Re: GHC and Haskell 98

2011-06-18 Thread Malcolm Wallace
As one of the few people who has habitually used Haskell'98 wherever possible, I favour plan A. As I recently discovered, in ghc 7 it is already very fragile to attempt to depend on both the base and haskell98 packages simultaneously. In most cases it simply doesn't work. Removing those few

Re: GHC and Haskell 98

2011-06-18 Thread Simon Sin
Simon Peyton-Jones, if you say: Under Plan A, some Hackage packages will become un-compilable, and will require source code changes to fix them. I do not have any idea how many Hackage packages would fail in this way. If you don't have any idea how many Hackage packages would

Re: GHC and Haskell 98

2011-06-18 Thread Bas van Dijk
On 17 June 2011 16:47, Simon Peyton-Jones simo...@microsoft.com wrote: So:    Under Plan A, some Hackage packages will become un-compilable,       and will require source code changes to fix them.  I do not have        any idea how many Hackage packages would fail in this way. Of the 372