PROPOSAL: Remove Control.OldException

[Simon Marlow]

On 18/07/2009 13:51, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> 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 propose that we remove Control.OldException for GHC 6.12.
>
> If anyone does want Control.OldException, then it could be provided by a
> separate package.
>
> Deadline: 2nd August (2 weeks).

We're planning to have a base4-compat, right?  So we could put 
Control.OldException in base-4, and leave it out of base-5.

Cheers,
	Simon