Haskell Platform call for consensus: add transformers and revise the mtl package to depend on it

[Ross Paterson]

On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 05:02:39PM +0100, Sebastiaan Visser wrote:
> Is it really a problem that it goes beyond the primary mission?

It might be if it slows down the HP process.

However I agree that instances of the mtl classes for MaybeT (and
IdentityT) should be added, since there's nowhere else to put them
without making them orphans.  I'm not so sure about copying the
transformers modules, though.