RFC: Time Library 0.3

Simon Marlow simonmarhaskell at gmail.com
Tue Mar 14 11:12:44 EST 2006


Ashley Yakeley wrote:
> In article <43E74BF0.6090708 at microsoft.com>,
>  Simon Marlow <simonmarhaskell at gmail.com> wrote:
>>I propose swapping out the Data.Time library with this one in GHC 6.6, 
>>leaving the old one available as "Time" (in the haskell98 package). 
>>Also, I'm going to propose it for inclusion in Haskell'.
> 
> Should I create a new package as http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/time 
> ? The source is already in a darcs repository, but it might not be 
> arranged in the right way.

Sure, just add it there.  I don't think you have an account on 
darcs.haskell.org, right?  Send me an SSH public key and I'll set you up 
with one.

>>I think the documentation would benefit greatly from a list of examples 
>>(as has been mentioned before).  Anyone like to do this?
> 
> I'm not sure of the best way to publish these. Should they just appear 
> in the haddock?

Yes, the Haddock is the best place IMO.  Better not to have too many 
places to put documentation.

Cheers,
	Simon


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