[Haskell-cafe] Re: package code duplication

[Don Stewart]

wasserman.louis:
> There was a question recently about being allowed to get into package
> internals, and I had a question.  I want to use uvector's stream internals in
> ways that the exposed methods don't permit, but I don't especially want to use
> another package (e.g. vector, which does expose its internals) or reimplement
> my own stream fusion.  Would it make sense to duplicate uvector's internals,
> copying licensing information and other stuff of course, inside my package? 
> It's a suboptimal solution, but it seems better than the alternative...

I think just exposing them as a .Internal makes more sense, and
is my preferred route (a la Data.ByteString.Internal)

-- Don