Haskell platform proposal: time-extras package

[Ashley Yakeley]

Malcolm Wallace wrote:
> Correct me if I am wrong, but the "time" package already uses extensions 
> beyond Haskell'98.  It certainly imports the ReadP library, which 
> requires Rank2, and so no pure Haskell'98 compiler can build the time 
> package.

Oops, my mistake, you're quite right. And I should say "time" already 
uses HierarchicalModules, FFI and CPP.

I was originally going to put the Data instances in "time", but you 
objected:

http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2009-June/011791.html
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2009-June/011796.html

What do you recommend?

-- 
Ashley Yakeley