Hi,
I just released the first version of a package that "provide new
additions to base for older versions of base" [2]. So far the following
is covered:
readMaybe
readEither
lookupEnv
getExecutablePath
Source is on GitHub [2]; patches welcome ;)
Cheers,
Simon
[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-compat
[2] https://github.com/sol/base-compat