Hackage rejecting packages

[Henning Thielemann]

On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, Iavor Diatchki wrote:

> While, in principle, "base" could completely change in the future, in
> practice there is a fairly large set of functions that are quite
> stable and it is not hard to write fairly future proof code. I think
> that it should be up to the maintainer to decide if they have an upper
> bound or not, just like with any other package.

I do not expect that functions simply disappear, but I expect that 'base' 
will be further split into smaller packages.