<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 11:31 PM, Mark Lentczner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark.lentczner@gmail.com" target="_blank">mark.lentczner@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><li><b><span class="">old</span>-<span class="">locale</span> and <span class="">old</span>-time</b> - no longer part of GHC, but cabal-install, cgi & HTTP need them - and they are part of the platform - so included now as added packages. Not sure this is a great idea, since they are now very deprecated... but until cabal-install, cgi, & HTTP update, not sure what else to do.</li>... </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><li><b>exceptions</b> & <b>multipart</b> - needed by cgi - is exceptions now subsumed by something in transformers? and... multipart? maybe time to drop cgi? We didn't have it last time anyway as it wouldn't compile!</li></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Mark,<br><br>Thanks for all your hard work on the platform. Haskell Platform compliance is not currently a goal of cgi and since it wasn't in the platform last round I'd say it should be treated as a package attempting to be accepted into the Haskell Platform.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"></div><div class="gmail_extra">Are old-time and old-locale really deprecated? If so, can <a href="mailto:libraries@haskell.org">libraries@haskell.org</a> use the nifty 'Deprecated in favor of ...' feature of hackage like MonadCatchIO-mtl [1] does?<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Regarding depedencies, since I've taken over maintenance of cgi the primary goal has been getting it able to compile with the latest GHC. Compiling with GHC 7.8 meant dropping MonadCatchIO-mtl and using exceptions. multipart is nearly a bit for bit copy of some internal cgi code, rather than duplicating the code, cgi added it as a dependency.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>[1] <a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/package/MonadCatchIO-mtl">http://hackage.haskell.org/package/MonadCatchIO-mtl</a><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Love in Jesus Christ, John Alfred Nathanael Chee<br><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/" target="_blank">http://www.biblegateway.com/</a><br><a href="http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~chee/" target="_blank">http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~chee/</a></div>
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