Preferred way to do locales in the Haskell Platform

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The Haskell platform includes two obsolete libraries, old-time and old-locale. For old-time, it also includes the preferred alternative (namely time), but I can't figure out what the recommended alternative for old-locale is.

Is this simply a shortcoming of the Platform as of now (version 2010.1.0.0), or something I've overlooked?

score 11 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 01 '10 at 15:09

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The libraries in the HP are by definition not obsolete. The particular names used though, are up to the maintainers. old-locale remains the preferred mechanism for manipulating locales.

answered Jun 01 '10 at 15:09

Don Stewart

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Well, the Hackage description (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/old-locale-1.0.0.2 ) says: "This package provides the old locale library. For new code, the new locale library is recommended." If that's not an explicit deprecation, I don't know what is. – user355466 Jun 11 '10 at 02:20
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@user355466 sadly that is just wishful thinking. The "new" locale lib is clearly stalled. I've not seen any discussion of a replacement for some time. – Duncan Coutts Oct 14 '10 at 07:32
It's not possible to merge stalles new locale lib into old-locale and rename old-locale too new-locale? – Zhen Jul 06 '11 at 14:06

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 05 '13 at 13:53

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In old-locale-1.0.0.5, the deprecation notice is removed: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/old-locale.

answered Feb 05 '13 at 13:53

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I'm sorry @Obs, the down vote was a complete accident! I intended to up-vote, but didn't notice the mistake until it was "locked in." – rob Jan 06 '15 at 15:06
Don't worry about it. :) – fcar Jan 06 '15 at 15:07

Preferred way to do locales in the Haskell Platform

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