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

[Don Stewart]

johan.tibell:
> All,
> 
> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This is a call for consensus for the following proposal:
> >
> >    http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/Proposals/transformers
> >
> > Are there any unresolved concerns?
> >
> > Deadline: 2 weeks (Nov 14)
> 
> Since no blocking objections were raised, I declare this proposal accepted.
> 
> - There were several experience reports of upgrading to mtl-2. Thanks
> for sharing.
> - Isaac Dupree pointed out that we need to make sure there are no
> unexpected transition difficulties, but didn't think it's was a
> blocking concern. I think we agreed that all proposals are
> conditionally accepted on actually being possible to implement.
> 
> Thanks to everyone for trying to sticking with the process. We (as in
> the steering committee) will do our best to make it a bit smoother
> next time around.
> 
> Johan Tibell
> (with his Haskell Platform Steering Committee hat on)


Thanks Ross, for proposing, and everyone else for contributing!

Well done!

I have now added mtl+transformers to the HP 2011.1 release candidate
.cabal file.

-- Don