Package versioning confusion

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

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.

I too am happy to split it out -- as long as nothing in base is using
PackedString or bytestring. But until it is split, and while Hugs and
GHC both have it in base, hmm, nhc is playing odd man out ;-)

-- Don