old-locale

[Ashley Yakeley]

On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 18:57 +0200, Bas van Dijk wrote:
> What does this mean for the Haskell Platform? Do we add time-locale?
> Removing old-locale is problematic since a number of packages in the
> HP depend on it:
> 
> haskell98
> hpc
> old-time
> time
> cgi
> 
> But it's probably best to just update these packages to work with time
> and time-locale.

I wrote:
> No, locale is not part of time. Nor am I interested in taking
> responsibility for it.

Actually, I suppose this depends on whether we still need to expose a
"System.Locale". If not, probably better for the time package to not
depend on old-locale and instead create a new type for time locale under
Data.Time.LocalTime.

-- Ashley