[Haskell-cafe] GHC including System.Time but not Data.Time?

John Goerzen jgoerzen at complete.org
Wed Apr 15 09:35:00 EDT 2009


Lennart Augustsson wrote:
> Removing a package in a minor release is, to quote, an epic fail.
> I don't understand how that could be done.

I agree.  Is there any chance of 6.10.3 reverting the change?

-- John

> 
>   -- Lennart
> 
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Bulat Ziganshin
> <bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello John,
>>
>> Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 8:44:12 PM, you wrote:
>>
>>> I understand the goal of removing stuff from GHC, but the practical
>>> implications can be rather annoying.
>> i think that Haskell Platform will eventually replace what GHC was for
>> a years, i.e. out-of-box solution for practical haskell usage. and ghc
>> should be just what its name implies - bare compiler
>>
>> but i agree that stripping one package in minor 6.10.2 version, w/o
>> Haskell Platform really available was an error
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>>  Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com
>>
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