korpios:
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Don Stewart <d...@galois.com> wrote:
> > korpios:
> >> wiki — but I still find the array of libraries confusing (just what
> >> comes with GHC — I'm not even talking about Hackage here), since the
> >
> > What comes with GHC is the Haskell Platform these days.
> > Actually, the other way around. GHC comes with the Haskell Platform.
> >
> > http://haskell.org/platform/
> >
> > The contents of which are specified here:
> >
> > http://haskell.org/platform/contents.html
>
> I'm talking about poking around here randomly:
>
> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/index.html
>
> ... and trying to figure out what a given library does — not for the
> sake of selecting it among other options (the Platform idea), but just
> as part of getting a grip on Haskell's "standard library", as it were.
> Put another way, I'm doing the opposite of the Platform — instead of
> saying "I have requirement X, what library would be the best match?",
> I'm asking "Hmm, hello library Y, what could I use you for?"
Oh, indeed. Starting with the aggregated package index is a difficult
direction.
You might instead want to look up those core packages on Hackage,
and read their overview separately:
[base] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base
[array] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/array
[bytestring] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/bytestring
[Cabal] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Cabal
[containers] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/containers
[directory] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/directory
[editline] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/editline
[filepath] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/filepath
[haskell98] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/haskell98
[hpc] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hpc
[old-locale] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/old-locale
[old-time] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/old-time
[packedstring] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/packedstring
[pretty] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pretty
[process] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/process
[random] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/random
[syb] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/syb
[template-haskell] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/template-haskel
[unix] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/unix
[win32] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Win32
[cgi] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cgi
[fgl] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/fgl
[parsec] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/parsec
[GLUT] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/GLUT
[haskell-src] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/haskell-src
[html] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/html
[HUnit] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/HUnit
[mtl] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/mtl
[network] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/network
[OpenGL] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/OpenGL
[parallel] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/parallel
[QuickCheck] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/QuickCheck
[regex-base] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/regex-base
[regex-compat] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/regex-compat
[regex-posix] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/regex-posix
[stm] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/stm
[time] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/time
[xhtml] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/xhtml
[zlib] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/zlib
[HTTP] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/HTTP
I'd welcome input on how to best present all this -- the Haskell Platform gives
us a chance to package up the docs in a better format for consumption.
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