Could iteratee depend on mtl instead of transformers?

Michael Snoyman michael at snoyman.com
Tue Nov 17 07:56:44 EST 2009


On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Nicolas Pouillard <
nicolas.pouillard at gmail.com> wrote:

> Excerpts from Edward Kmett's message of Tue Nov 17 05:03:01 +0100 2009:
> > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo
> > <mle+hs at mega-nerd.com <mle%2Bhs at mega-nerd.com><mle%2Bhs at mega-nerd.com<mle%252Bhs at mega-nerd.com>
> >
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > Valery V. Vorotyntsev wrote:
> > >
> > > > Thus, the question is: are there any transformers-specific features
> > > > iteratee package needs, or can it just go with mtl?
> > >
> > > I have successful build iteratee by replacing transformers with
> > > mtl in the .cabal file.
> > >
> > > > I suspect mtl to be more popular... And actual "popularity" can be
> > > > measured.
> > >
> > > Popularity is not the issue. The issue is that we are currently
> > > in a transition from using mtl to using transformers. See:
> > >
> > >   http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2009-March/011415.html
> > >
> http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2009-October/067744.html
> > >
> > >
> > Are we?
>
> Let's make a poll then!
>
> transformers+1


FWIW, +1 transformers. I like being able to swap monads-fd and monads-tf.

Michael

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