PROPOSAL: Remove Control.OldException

Don Stewart dons at galois.com
Sat Jul 18 12:51:04 EDT 2009


igloo:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Proposal:
>     Remove Control.OldException
>     http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3381
> 
> We included Control.OldException in base to help people trying to remain
> compatible with both GHC 6.8 and GHC 6.10. However, my impression is
> that most (all?) people who wanted compatibility used the
> extensible-exceptions package instead.
> 

I'd be very wary of this so early. Try building hackage and tell us what
breaks when there is no OldException.

-- Don


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