Re: Add haskell-src as an official machine-readable component of the Haskell standard

2010-11-18 Thread Neil Mitchell
There is nothing to stop an library author doing exactly this, and it might even be useful for some people (personally I'm going to stick to haskell-src-exts, because it's a brilliant library). However, I don't think we should make it official or part of the standard. I've found plenty of HSE/GHC

Re: Add haskell-src as an official machine-readable component of the Haskell standard

2010-11-18 Thread Yitzchak Gale
Ben Millwood wrote: So we don't actually specify the content or API of the library itself, merely state its existence? If we specify the API we make those decisions, if we don't I don't see what exactly you are asking for... So why are you proposing that it be different from a Hackage package

Re: Add haskell-src as an official machine-readable component of the Haskell standard

2010-11-18 Thread Yitzchak Gale
Hi Neil, Neil Mitchell wrote: There is nothing to stop an library author doing exactly this, and it might even be useful for some people (personally I'm going to stick to haskell-src-exts, because it's a brilliant library). Yes, it is. I am not proposing changing in any way how we develop