| On the other hand, it's not entirely true that there's no standard
| library, it's just that it's borders are slightly fuzzy. For example, we
| do have the library change submission process for modifying the standard
| libraries. Up until now that has been taken to mean changes to the base
|
* Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
Then, in effect, the standard library is all the X packages. I wonder
if it'd help to have some descriptions such as those above (better
worded), and use them? Cabal already has a stability indication, and
that might serve, but we'd want to articulate much more
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 10:15 +0100, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
All true, but not so helpful for Joe User. For Joe, I think it might
be helpful to have some easily-discoverable notion of which package
quality and stability.
- Package X is blessed; lots of people have argued over its design,
Can someone clarify what's going on with the standard library in
Haskell?
As of right now, I can download, say, GHC from haskell.org/ghc and get a
set of libraries with it. I can visit
http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/, linked from the
haskell.org home page, and see
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 09:19 -0600, Chris Smith wrote:
Can someone clarify what's going on with the standard library in
Haskell?
As of right now, I can download, say, GHC from haskell.org/ghc and get a
set of libraries with it. I can visit
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 05:27:21PM +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote:
We have tools to solve the downloading and installing all deps problem.
It's called cabal-install. It's sort-of almost ready for wider testing.
duncan - will this have an interactive prompt?
i have found perl -MCPAN -e shell
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 11:05 -0700, brad clawsie wrote:
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 05:27:21PM +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote:
We have tools to solve the downloading and installing all deps problem.
It's called cabal-install. It's sort-of almost ready for wider testing.
duncan - will this have an
