PVP proposal: don't require major version bump when adding non-orphan instances

Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com
Wed Feb 26 23:47:38 UTC 2014


On 27 February 2014 10:28, Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh at earth.li> wrote:
> On 26/02/2014 14:59, Johan Tibell wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Henning Thielemann
>> <schlepptop at henning-thielemann.de
>> <mailto:schlepptop at henning-thielemann.de>> wrote:
>>
>>     As far as I remember we already discussed this:
>>
>>      http://www.haskell.org/__pipermail/libraries/2011-__December/017337.html
>>     <http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2011-December/017337.html>
>>
>>
>> Apparently I'm getting old and forgetful. :/
>>
>> By looking at the last thread and this thread I think the following
>> people support the proposal:
>>
>> Johan Tibell
>> Michael Snoyman
>> Christian Maeder
>> Henning Thielemann
>>
>> And the following people against:
>>
>> Ganesh Sittampalam
>> Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
>> Erik Hesselink
>
> I think my previous opposition was based on the fact that orphan
> instances appeared to be ruled out altogether by the proposal then.
>
> Given the statement in your new proposal "If a package defines an orphan
> instance, it must depend on the minor version of the packages", I'm now
> a +1.

I think I was the same, so I'm now +1 as well.

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