Generalizing Network.CGI exceptions to MonadCatchIO

[Bjorn Bringert]

Thanks for showing the cgi package some love. It really needs a new
maintainer since I have no time to spend on it. I think Ganesh was
looking into that. Any news?

/Bjorn

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 21:56, Anders Kaseorg <andersk at mit.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Bas van Dijk wrote:
>> But in addition we can advice the users of catchCGI to actually use the
>> CatchIO.catch instead by adding a deprecated pragma like:
>>
>>  {-# DEPRECATED catchCGI "Use Control.Monad.CatchIO.catch instead." #-}
>>
>> Or is this to rude?
>
> I’d have no objection to that, if the maintainer agrees.
>
>> Something else: which MonadCatchIO package are you proposing to use:
>> MonadCatchIO-mtl or MonadCatchIO-transformers? I guess the former
>> because cgi depends on mtl.
>
> Right, one change at a time.  :-)
>
>> In that case we should contact the maintainer of MonadCatchIO-mtl and
>> ask if he can add the following functions: bracket_, bracketOnError and
>> finally (types and definitions below).
>
> Sure, those would definitely be nice to have regardless.
>
> Anders
>