RE: deprecating

See my response on http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/6032#comment:6
Not sure what the best path is here

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| -----Original Message-----
| From: Johan Tibell [mailto:[email protected]]
| Sent: 19 October 2012 17:39
| To: Simon Peyton-Jones
| Cc: Don Stewart; Duncan Coutts; Roman Leshchinskiy;
| [email protected]; [email protected]; Ben Lippmeier; Manuel M T
| Chakravarty; [email protected]
| Subject: Re: deprecating
| 
| Hi Simon,
| 
| On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 4:49 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones
| <[email protected]> wrote:
| > As discussed in Trac #6032 I am deprecating
| >
| >           Rank2Types
| >
| >           PolymorphicComponents
| >
| > in favour of the single flag
| >
| >           RankNTypes
| 
| I'm fine with making the changes to cabal, but before I do, I want to
| make sure that we really want to do this. I did a quick investigation
| of how many modules need to be updated on Hackage. It's about 775.
| That will require quite a lot of work by quite a lot of people. Could
| we instead have Rank2Types be an alias for RankNTypes?
| 
| Cheers,
| Johan