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

Lennart Augustsson lennart at augustsson.net
Tue Apr 14 13:17:05 EDT 2009


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

  -- 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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