patch applied (packages/base): Remove deprecated Data.FiniteMap and Data.Set interfaces

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Malcolm,

Monday, August 21, 2006, 2:57:13 PM, you wrote:

>> >>  * Remove deprecated Data.FiniteMap and Data.Set interfaces
> OK.  Attached is a new module Data.FiniteMap, containing (most of) the
> old API, but actually using the newer Data.Map to implement everything.
> It is very useful for me, since it means all my old software continues
> to work with all of ghc-6.2.2 and ghc-6.4.x and ghc-6.6 (forthcoming).

> The only question is where should I put it?  At the moment, it is local
> to my darcs repo of the base package.  Should I commit it back to the
> main branch?  Should I distribute it as a separate (very tiny) package?

continuing Simon's idea of moving as much of possible from basic ghc
distribution and including it in additional packages, i propose to
make smth like EmulateGHC62 package and include in in binary
distributions (for Win32, Linux and so on) that GHC packagers are maintain



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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com