Changes to primops break libraries (was Re: 7.8 Feature window)

[Jan Stolarek]

I guess that's a valid argument. I'll discuss this with Simon tomorrow.

Janek

Dnia poniedziałek, 26 sierpnia 2013, Simon Marlow napisał:
> On 26/08/13 10:38, Jan Stolarek wrote:
> >> So since we have to break the API anyway, why not break it in the way
> >> that we want?
> >
> > Oh, but the thing is we don't! We have a plan to rename GHC.Prim to
> > GHC.Prim.BuiltIn, rename GHC.PrimWrappers (in ghc-prim) to GHC.Prim and
> > make it re-export GHC.Prim.BuiltIn [1]. This way change will be
> > completely backwards compatible. I was working on that on Friday. Patches
> > are essentially finished, but I still have to solve haddock panic that I
> > somehow introduced [2].
>
> I'm sorry, but I just don't like this solution.  We could do this every
> time we change an API, but imagine what a mess we'd be in by now!  It's
> just not the right way to manage API changes.
>
> Cheers,
> 	Simon