genBits: small addition to random API + largely new implementation that needs code review

[Ian Lynagh]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 02:26:14PM -0700, Thomas DuBuisson wrote:
> Ian Lynagh <igloo at earth.li> wrote:
> 
> > Perhaps we should fork random as old-random
> >
> > This would probably imply the next Haskell' release not specifying
> > System.Random.
> 
> H2010 already doesn't specify Random, unless I missed something.

Ah, better still. random98 might be a better name, in that case.

> I've never liked the "old-*" package renaming as that already
> introduces (minor) breakage and doesn't seem to encourage people to
> move forward.  Why avoid using versioning and build-deps for this
> (adding a version bound is similar work to adding "old-")?

Mainly because I like to only have a single version of each package.
Just having an old version of random is another option.


Thanks
Ian