ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

[Yitzchak Gale]

Hi Seth.

Sorry, my asterisks were not at all meant to be a flame.
Please accept my sincere apologies if it appeared that way.

I wrote:
>> It is *not* "trivial to wrap the function in question", and
>> it is not "more correct".

Seth Kurtzberg wrote:
> Why is it *not* trivial to wrap the function?  Regardless of
> whether you like the resulting solution, it is undeniably trivial
> to change the name of a function, create a new function with
> the (original) name, and have that new function...
> implement different behavior...

That may be trivial when writing a new program, but it may also
be difficult or even impossible when the code is already in use
and shared among many other existing programs.

Summarizing:

o The current (until recently) method has been in place for a
long time, and works fine.

o It follows a widely-used convention, though arguably a
somewhat messy one.

o It provides a prominent behavior, so changing it suddenly
is very painful.

o It is dubious whether the change, as implemented, achieves
its intended purpose at all, namely better Windows integration.

o Even if you believe that it does, the small amount of value
it provides is not worth the cost.

I support providing a default value for the home directory
when the user does not specify one. It would be nice if
this could be done in a more Windowsy way.

Since another of my points is that we are focusing
too much on this issue, I will say no more and gracefully
accept whatever the community decides at this point.

Thanks,
Yitz