PROPOSAL: Remove Control.OldException

Iavor Diatchki iavor.diatchki at gmail.com
Mon Jul 20 02:27:43 EDT 2009


Hello,
Please do not remove OldException.
-Iavor

On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Don Stewart<dons at galois.com> wrote:
> 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
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