Adding binary to the Haskell Platform

[Don Stewart]

johan.tibell:
> > I'm wary of breaking the 70 packages that use Data.Binary for this,
> > rather, add this as a list of API changes for the next major release.
> 
> Would this really break that many libraries? Are there many libraries
> that catch the exception that can be raised by error?
> 

Ah! Good question -- maybe we can find out... by building Hackage!