Lemmih <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 5/2/06, Shae Matijs Erisson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Isaac Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Welcome to the cabal-devel mailing list! I'm very please to see so >> > many folks signed up already. I'll just re-post the release >> > announcement that Duncan made below. >> >> I've been hacking on minimizing the cabal-get requirements. >> I spoke to Bjorn Bringert, he split Network.Browser into its own package so >> that the Network.HTTP package no longer requires crypto. >> >> Next steps for me are to minimize xml-rpc and its dependency, HaXml. > > Why not cut the xml-rpc dependency completely? It should be an evening > hack to replace it with, say, BEncode.
Shae also suggested getting rid of xml-rpc. I'm not totally against it, but it would be nice if folks could easily write clients! having a hackage-client packages is helpful here, but it doesn't help for other languages. Suggestions? peace, isaac _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel