[Haskell-cafe] Core packages and locale support

[Felipe Lessa]

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 05:34:49PM +0400, Alexey Khudyakov wrote:
> It should solve most of problems I believe. But such change will break
> a lot of programs maybe most of them. How could one introduce such a
> change? One variant is to create new hierarchy and gradually deprecate
> old.
>
> Also same problem affect command line arguments and process module.

So that means we should make this change as soon as possible,
doesn't it? :)

The problem now is designing a future-proof OS-agnostic API to
avoid having to change this core part of the base library again
in the near future.

Cheers,

--
Felipe.