Whither the AFPP?

[Ben Franksen]

Am 27.02.2017 um 01:07 schrieb Eric Mertens:
> If we're going to improve the state of the file path type, it would be
> appropriate to first develop a package to work out the new design. Packages
> have already tried and failed at this, and the base package isn't the place
> to experiment in this space. Once this package existed and saw wide use,
> allowing kinks in the API to be worked out, it would then be appropriate to
> think about migrating base to it.

the way i understand the proposal it doesn'work that way, it's about a 
migration path in the face of many existing modules, not only base, that 
use the FilePath type synonym.

>
> Regards,
> Eric
>
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 2:43 PM Ben Franksen <ben.franksen at online.de> wrote:
>
>> Am 26.02.2017 um 21:58 schrieb Boespflug, Mathieu:
>>> a few folks got together to propose this nearly 2 years ago:
>>>
>>> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Proposal/AbstractFilePath
>>>
>>> Has anything become of this proposal? Might it be helpful to have a
>> similar
>>> process as ghc-proposals for changes in base and the boot libraries that
>> do
>>> not otherwise affect the compiler or the language, so as to track the
>>> status of these things more consistently?
>>
>> i am strongly +1, fwiw
>>
>> current situation is very unfortunate and this would mean progress
>>
>> Cheers
>> Ben
>>
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