PROPOSAL: Remove Control.OldException

[Don Stewart]

Ian, how about we dreprecate the module instead?

-- Don

iavor.diatchki:
> 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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