Why is System.Posix.Error in unix?
Ian Lynagh
igloo at earth.li
Fri Jul 20 17:00:40 EDT 2007
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 11:16:52AM +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> Friday, July 20, 2007, 3:14:11 AM, you wrote:
> > Is there a reason not to move this, perhaps renaming it in the process,
> > to the base package (or possibly elsewhere in the future, but in the
> > short term I might want to use it in base)?
>
> backward compatibility.
I don't think that's really an issue here. I can't imagine anything
would break if we moved it to base without renaming it, and if we did
rename it then we could have a module with the old name in unix
re-exporting it.
Thanks
Ian
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