Package versioning confusion

[Malcolm Wallace]

Sven Panne <sven.panne at aedion.de> wrote:

>  * Malcolm: Could you move the polyparse repository from 
> http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/darcs/polyparse to
> darcs.haskell.org/packages,  please? This would make things more
> consistent.

Done (although with some reluctance due to the general network slowness
of darcs.haskell.org).  In the new darcs-all, I am very keen to retain
the ability to use package repos stored elsewhere (not at darcs.haskell.org).

>  * Finally, I am utterly confused by the fps package:
> Using it currently must  be a nightmare for packagers/users due to
> this versionitis... :-/

Yup.  To reduce this confusion, I would very much like fps to remain
separate from base, and that is one reason (but not the only one) why
nhc98 does not build or export the version of Data.ByteString in base.

Regards,
    Malcolm