2012/11/22 Simon Peyton-Jones <simo...@microsoft.com>: > Having GHC support multiple copies of the same package/version would > certainly be a step in the right direction. It still wouldn't completely > address the goals I'm getting at in my blog post. What I'm really aiming for > overall is to provide users with a stable, vetted set of packages that are > known to work well together. But for those of us who will still be using > plain Hackage, this improvement would be very helpful. > > > > Indeed. I’ve always thought of the Haskell Platform as doing the “stable > set” part, though there must be plenty of space between HP at one end and > Hackage at the other, and that’s what you are exploring I think. > > > > Regardless, being able to install multiple instantiations of the same > package/version is desirable for the “stable set” story, so that more than > one stable set is possible; and so that trying to use a package outside the > stable set doesn’t mess up your stable-set installation. > > > > The question is: who will do the work?
Duncan said on reddit you mentionned to him Kickstarter as a possible venue (http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/12e3a0/the_good_the_bad_and_the_ugly_haskell_in/c6uar2d). He mentioned a minimum of around $50k. I think it would be interesting to gauge interest on the haskell mailing list or on reddit to see if such an amount would be possible. Cheers, Thu _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
