PVP proposal: don't require major version bump when adding non-orphan instances

[Johan Tibell]

The deadline have now passed. I think everyone who was against the prior
proposal changed their mind as I clarified this proposal. I will make the
changes to the PVP.


On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 1:05 AM, Erik Hesselink <hesselink at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:47 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
> <ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 27 February 2014 10:28, Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh at earth.li> wrote:
> >> On 26/02/2014 14:59, Johan Tibell wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Henning Thielemann
> >>> <schlepptop at henning-thielemann.de
> >>> <mailto:schlepptop at henning-thielemann.de>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>     As far as I remember we already discussed this:
> >>>
> >>>
> http://www.haskell.org/__pipermail/libraries/2011-__December/017337.html
> >>>     <
> http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2011-December/017337.html>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Apparently I'm getting old and forgetful. :/
> >>>
> >>> By looking at the last thread and this thread I think the following
> >>> people support the proposal:
> >>>
> >>> Johan Tibell
> >>> Michael Snoyman
> >>> Christian Maeder
> >>> Henning Thielemann
> >>>
> >>> And the following people against:
> >>>
> >>> Ganesh Sittampalam
> >>> Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
> >>> Erik Hesselink
> >>
> >> I think my previous opposition was based on the fact that orphan
> >> instances appeared to be ruled out altogether by the proposal then.
> >>
> >> Given the statement in your new proposal "If a package defines an orphan
> >> instance, it must depend on the minor version of the packages", I'm now
> >> a +1.
> >
> > I think I was the same, so I'm now +1 as well.
>
> I've also changed my mind, depending on a minor version (or going with
> a newtype) seems good enough. I guess that's all the -1's...
>
> Erik
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