Proposal: deepseq should not depend on containers

[Iavor Diatchki]

Hello,
I agree with Johan that the dependency seems backward. "containers" is a
perfectly fine package but there is no reason to assume that everyone has
it.  Consider, for example, a situation where I want to write a replacement
for "containers"---it would certainly be undesirable for my package to
depend on "containers".
-Iavor


On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 05/01/11 22:10, Johan Tibell wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Ian Lynagh<igloo at earth.li>  wrote:
>>
>>> However, I think types in the GHC bootlibs should be an exception to
>>> this rule. Otherwise any classes that someone wants the bootlibs to have
>>> an instance for will need to be added to the bootlibs, and we'd like to
>>> keep the set of bootlibs as small as possible.
>>>
>>
>> What would happen if GHC HQ find an interesting package on Hackage and
>> put it in bootlib because they found it useful for GHC? Would that
>> library author then not be allowed to add new dependencies to his/her
>> package? I find that to be quite a weird model. Normally you don't get
>> to dictate what the respective authors of packages you depend on do
>> with their packages. (You can ask nicely of course.)
>>
>
> Of course we don't get to dictate.  If the library grew some dependencies
> that we couldn't put in bootlibs we have two options: stop using the library
> in GHC, or carry on using the old version.
>
> We already have one library like this: binary, which is shipped as
> ghc-binary so that users can install and upgrade binary without breaking
> GHC.  The renaming is only necessary due to limitations in Cabal and the
> package system, which don't know that binary is only used internally in GHC
> and could safely be mixed with another version of binary without problems.
>
>
>  The reason I want to get rid of the container dependency is that I
>> don't want the data structure package I'm working depend on another
>> data structure package that provides similar functionality. That
>> seems, weird. I'd rather just skip the NFData instances.
>>
>
> It seems a little weird, but I don't think it has any undesirable
> consequences in practice, does it?
>
> Cheers,
>        Simon
>
>
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