Proposal: Changes to the PVP

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 10 April 2014 16:19, Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh at earth.li> wrote:
> On 10/04/2014 05:30, Michael Snoyman wrote:
>
>> * Module reexports leaking from transitive dependencies.
>
> Shouldn't we just be saying "don't reexport entire modules from other
> packages"? Is there a scenario where this is useful? One scenario I can
> see is perhaps inside groups of packages maintained by the same author
> or in the same source tree, but then the author can bump all the
> packages in sync if necessary.

Re-exporting modules like Control.Applicative for parsing libraries?

Admittedly, this is for a module in base rather than a third-party library.

>
>> I think it's obvious that no amendment to the text of the PVP will be
>> accepted by this list, so educating users that they're using their tools
>> incorrectly clearly won't be happening on that page.
>
> Didn't Johan get an amendment agreed a few weeks ago? I think your
> current amendments will have difficulty because they are based on
> premises that many people disagree with, but that doesn't mean that no
> amendments at all are possible.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ganesh
>
>
>
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