The HP and PackedString (was: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Removing mtl from the Haskell Platform)

[Duncan Coutts]

On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 15:37 +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> Hello Duncan,
> 
> Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 3:33:13 PM, you wrote:
> 
> > I think it should remain deprecated and we should work on the
> > replacement so that TH can switch its dependency.
> 
> TH isn't high-performance package and i think that it should just
> switch to use of String

That's a reasonable proposal for the next major release of the platform.
Please do propose it on the libraries list and see if we can get a
consensus.

Duncan