HP Package Requirements (was: Haskell Platform proposal: Add case-insensitive)

[Herbert Valerio Riedel]

Roman Cheplyaka <roma-e10UterjXHviB9QmIjCX8w at public.gmane.org> writes:

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> There should be a policy regarding standard compliance of the platform
> packages.
>
> The status quo is that a large part of the platform is not Haskell2010,
> and converting it to Haskell2010 does not seem feasible.
>
> So the policy seems to be that the platform does not require the
> packages to be H2010 (or H98, for that matter).

Btw, some time ago, I tried to find out what the actual compatibility
requirements were for HP packages, but I could find only the following
information: