backward compatibility

[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 1/20/11 12:09 , Sittampalam, Ganesh wrote:
> Simon Marlow wrote:
>> judgement as to whether we should spend effort on backwards
>> compatibility or not.  Perhaps we're getting it wrong - so feedback
>> from 
>> users is always valuable.
> 
> From the point of view of darcs, which is usually trying to support 2 or 3 GHC versions at a time, one cycle of deprecation makes life a lot simpler. We do look at warnings and try to fix them, but it's nicer not to have to do so in a real hurry.

And of the Haskell Platform, etc.  Think of it as the price of failing to
avoid success.

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