Compatibility libraries

[Isaac Jones]

Einar Karttunen <ekarttun at cs.helsinki.fi> writes:

(snip)
> GHC seems to have its own solution in fptools/ghc/lib/compat/ but 
> having a cabal package and supporting e.g. Data.Map/Set could make 
> things easier. Does this sound like a good idea or is there a much
> better solution?

I think it's a good idea.  It would be nice to have a single Cabal
package for all the differences between 6.2 and 6.4, including HUnit,
Data.Queue, and others.  It would certainly be useful to me, since I
still use 6.2 for some stuff, but I don't know how many ppl are like
me.

Of course, it would be better to have multiple Cabal packages, but
Cabal doesn't implement inter-dependent packages in one .cabal file
yet.  I hope to soon!


peace,

  isaac