proposed change to transformers package

Ross Paterson ross at soi.city.ac.uk
Thu Mar 25 08:11:18 EDT 2010


On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:13:01PM +0100, Bas van Dijk wrote:
> Maybe we can push the spreading of transformers a bit by putting the
> following note in the mtl description:
> 
> "We advise you to use the transformers package if you only need to use
> the concrete monad transformers (types) and don't need to use the
> monad transformer classes."
> 
> ...or something similar. And releasing this as mtl-1.1.0.3.

Looks unlikely while mtl is in the Haskell Platform and transformers isn't.
But it seems to be spreading nicely without semi-official support.


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