[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.12.1

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

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On Dec 15, 2009, at 06:13 , Dennis Walter wrote:
>>> Where has Control.Concurrent.STM gone?
>>> I cannot find it on
>>> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/
>>> anymore!
>>>
>> Split into an stm package, on hackage. :-)
> Thanks for the info; I wonder if this is a good or a bad sign
> regarding STM's future within Haskell? Is it so big and self-contained
> to deserve its own external package, or is it so little used that it
> does not belong to into the "standard" libraries? Did I miss an
> announcement about restructuring and cleaning up the Haskell
> hierarchical libraries?


What you missed is that the GHC devs are getting out of the libraries  
business.  The Haskell Platform replaces the GHC standard libraries.

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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH


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