[Haskell-cafe] The instability of Haskell libraries

[Roman Leshchinskiy]

On 24/04/2010, at 07:29, Don Stewart wrote:

> Oh, the Platform has very strict standards about APIs,

What is an API? The package versioning policy only seems to talk about types and function signatures. John's old-locale example shows that this is not enough.

Would it perhaps make sense for at least the Platform to require packages to have unit tests and to require versions to be bumped whenever those change (sufficiently)?

Roman