On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 11:14 +0100, Malcolm Wallace wrote: > I would like to see the same separation forming between the ghc compiler > itself (which would minimally include only the small number of libraries > needed to build the compiler), and larger "distributions" which would be > maintained by other people, and include much larger collections of > packages that the maintainer has tested and verified to work together.
I think there is a niche for a subset of the hackage libraries providing an officially sanctioned standard library collection. Currently, hackage includes, well, everything. As such, it is a useful resource, but it would be useful to have a partitioning into two levels, where the "SLC" would only include libraries that meet specific criteria. Maybe: - considered stable - is portable - relies only on other standard libraries - avoids needless duplication of functionality - with a responsive, named maintainer (not libraries@) - with acceptable documentation and unit tests - required by at least one separate application -k _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe