andrewcoppin: > Hackage seems like a nice idea in principle. However,
I think in practice too: we had no central lib archive or dependency system, now we have 400 libraries, and a package installer, 10 months later. Until Hackage, there was a strong pressure not to reuse other people's libraries. > - The packages seem to be of quite variable quality. Some are excellent, > some are rather poor (or just not maintained any more). 1. Welcome to the internet. > - Almost all packages seem to require a long list of dependencies. 2. Solved with cabal: cabal install foo Resolves package deps. Reusing libraries is a good thing. > - There seems to be an awful lot of packages that do the same thing but > with incompatible interfaces (and varying limitations). It seems we're > not very coordinated here. See #1. > - (And, since I'm on Windows, I can't seem to get anything to install > with Cabal...) 3. Report a bug. We need more developers on windows, for window to improve. -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe