Haskell Platform proposal: Add the vector package

[Henning Thielemann]

Am 15.07.2012 17:11, schrieb Thomas Schilling:
> On 15 July 2012 14:53, Yitzchak Gale <gale at sefer.org> wrote:
>>
>> Simon already pointed out that, in his opinion, the
>> correct way to support SH would be:
>>
>>   - rename M to M.Internal (or suitable alternative)
>>   - rename M.Safe to M
>>   - add a (small) M.Unsafe where necessary
>>
>> But that would break backwards compatibility for the
>> unsafe parts of the API. It's up to the package maintainers
>> whether or not they want to do that. If not, I would say revert
>> to no Safe Haskell support and accept it in the platform.
>> However, add a haddock comment something like this:
>>
>> "Safe Haskell: If you do not use any functions in this
>> module whose name contains the word 'unsafe', you
>> can mark your module as 'Trustworthy'. Otherwise,
>> please consult <Simon's SH paper>."
>
> To be fair, regardless of SH, I'd consider it good API design to put
> unsafe things into a separate module.  I'd be interested to know what
> exactly the problem is with moving these functions into a separate
> module.  If the only argument for not making this change is to avoid
> breaking the API then we should do it *before* including vector into
> the platform.

+1