[Haskell-cafe] Rewriting a famous library and using the same name: pros and cons

[Daniel Fischer]

On Tuesday 08 June 2010 20:21:54, Gregory Crosswhite wrote:
> Or you just put an upper bound on the versions of the fgl library that
> your program will build against, as you should be doing anyway, and then
> nothing breaks.
>
> Cheers,
> Greg

Right. At least, nothing breaks until the next compiler release makes the 
old library break.
But a new package name wouldn't help with that.