[ghc-steering-committee] Please review #696: Splitting out stable interfaces from template-haskell

[Sebastian Graf]

I think the renaming proposed by Adam is uncontroversial and I will include
this revision when accepting the proposal.

Am Do., 26. Juni 2025 um 10:25 Uhr schrieb Adam Gundry <adam at well-typed.com
>:

> I'm also in favour.
>
> I am suggesting some small naming changes, and I would point out one
> detail on which the committee may have opinions as to bikeshed colour,
> namely the module namespace to be used by the new packages. Teo proposes
>
>    template-haskell-lift with module TemplateHaskell.Lift
>    template-haskell-quasiquote with module TemplateHaskell.Quasiquoter
>
> and I suggest slightly tweaking the latter to
>
>    template-haskell-quasiquoter with module TemplateHaskell.QuasiQuoter
>
> for consistency with the QuasiQuoter type name.
>
> In both cases, the module name is in a new TemplateHaskell module
> hierarchy, whereas the existing template-haskell package uses the
> Language.Haskell.TH module hierarchy. I think a renaming is in order,
> because it gives a clear distinction between the historic API of the old
> template-haskell package and the cleaned up APIs of the new packages.
> Personally I like the new names, but I wanted to check others are also
> happy with them?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Adam
>
>
>
> On 23/06/2025 08:55, Sebastian Graf wrote:
> > Dear Committee,
> >
> > With their proposal, Teo wants to reduce the maintenance cost for
> > packages (such as `containers`) that depend on `template-haskell` only
> > for comparatively stable APIs (`Lift`, quasiquoting), by carving out
> > separate packages for these stable APIs.
> > These so-called "type (A) clients" constitute a considerable share of
> > all clients of `template-haskell`. It is a well-written proposal
> > outlining a simple solution with a great cost/benefit ratio.
> > I recommend we accept it.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Sebastian
> >
> > Am Mo., 16. Juni 2025 um 09:17 Uhr schrieb Adam Gundry via
> > ghc-steering-committee <ghc-steering-committee at haskell.org
> > <mailto:ghc-steering-committee at haskell.org>>:
> >
> >     Dear Committee,
> >
> >     Teo Camarasu proposes to split out smaller, more coherent packages
> with
> >     more stable interfaces from the template-haskell package:
> >
> >     https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/696
> >     <https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/696>
> >
> https://github.com/TeofilC/ghc-proposals/blob/wip/th-lift-and-quasiquote/proposals/0000-splitting-out-stable-interfaces-from-th.rst
> <
> https://github.com/TeofilC/ghc-proposals/blob/wip/th-lift-and-quasiquote/proposals/0000-splitting-out-stable-interfaces-from-th.rst
> >
> >
> >     I'd like to nominate Sebastian as the shepherd.
> >
> >     Please guide us to a conclusion as outlined in
> >     https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals#committee-process
> >     <https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals#committee-process>
> >
> >     Cheers,
> >
> >     Adam
> >
>
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