PROPOSAL: Remove Control.OldException

[Don Stewart]

igloo:
> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 09:51:04AM -0700, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I don't have a reasonable way to do an all-of-hackage build at the
> moment, but I've unpacked the latest version of each package and grepped
> for "Control.OldException". Of the 1425 packages, 19 mention it:
> 

Oh, I wonder how many are building with base 3 too. Hmm... we should
check that.

-- Don