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From: Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <<a href="mailto:ivan.miljenovic@gmail.com">ivan.miljenovic@gmail.com</a>><br>
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On 7 February 2011 12:30, wren ng thornton <<a href="mailto:wren@freegeek.org">wren@freegeek.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 2/6/11 4:53 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> On 7 February 2011 08:12, Alexey Khudyakov<<a href="mailto:alexey.skladnoy@gmail.com">alexey.skladnoy@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> ?wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> Also there is a container-classes package which provide set of type class<br>
>>> for containers.<br>
>>><br>
>>> [1] <a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/package/container-classes" target="_blank">http://hackage.haskell.org/package/container-classes</a><br>
>><br>
>> Don't use that package: it's broken. ?I did start on a re-write that<br>
>> works (and there are similar libraries around that I believe do work),<br>
>> but gave up because it was a) too fiddly, and b) I decided that the<br>
>> use case I had for them wasn't worth it (as it would just make that<br>
>> library more complicated and difficult to use, possibly also less<br>
>> efficient). ?If anyone wants it I can certainly send them what I've<br>
>> got though.<br>
><br>
> Any chance you could push a 0.0.0.1 version which tells people this, so that<br>
> they know to avoid it?<br>
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Didn't think about that; I'll try to do so tonight.<br></blockquote><div><br>Perhaps a better approach would be to ask the hackage maintainer (Ross Patterson, if I'm not mistaken) to deprecate container-classes.<br>
<br>John<br></div></div>