On 09/22/10 03:26, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
I think we are making a bit of a mountain out of a mole hill here. It's not
even as if 'vector' was in a terrible state; we intend to kick off the HP
process for it shortly, so it soon will be a HP package.
I suggest that it might be simpler just to let sleeping dogs lie and do what we
did with GHC 6.12; ie ship with GHC but as a hidden package.
Is it still true that packages shipped with GHC can't be sanely upgraded
to a later Haskell-Platform version? If that's true, then shipping it
as "vector" could make it difficult for the next Haskell Platform to
include a version of "vector" that has been tweaked a bit, and have that
Platform support GHC 7.0.x. (At least if we include "vector" in the
early/mid-2011 Haskell Platform revision then we'll presumably base the
Platform on the 7.0 line. And Is there any policy about whether the
Platform should make any attempt to support GHC versions other than the
exact one that we say it's shipped with?)
-Isaac
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