[Haskell-cafe] Hugs dropped Text.Regex?!

[John Goerzen]

I learned today, as I tried to run my ftphs unit tests under Hugs, that
Hugs dropped Text.Regex between 200503.08 and 200609.21.

The Hugs download page claims that they did this because the new GHC
implementation of Text.Regex is not compatible with Hugs.

But why can't Hugs keep the old implementation?

This is going to render Hugs just about useless for me.  I like regexps.

-- John