PROPOSAL: Remove Control.OldException

[Adam Wick]

On Jul 22, 2009, at 3:43 AM, Simon Marlow wrote:
> On 18/07/2009 13:51, Ian Lynagh wrote:
>>
>> Proposal:
>>     Remove Control.OldException
>>     http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3381
>
> 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.

Why not leave it in base-4, mark it as deprecated (with all the  
attendant warnings) in base-5, and remove it from base-6?

I can't imagine its inclusion is harming anything, and marking it as  
deprecated gives us all some warning before our packages suddenly  
break while updating.


- Adam