On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 3:15 AM, Ian Lynagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 03:35:30PM -0700, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
>>
>> I'm very keen to have HLP in place by the 6.10 release. I've started
>> a wiki page here,
>>
>>     http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_Platform
>
> Great, thanks Don!
>
> Here are a few criteria that I think it might be worth considering:
>
> * Has a maintainer
> * Has a bug tracker
> * Uses the package versioning policy
> * Builds with Cabal
> * Works on "all" OSes/arches (except where that doesn't make sense, e.g.
>  Win32)

* Has seen real world use

might be another criteria. You can have all of the above without ever
being used in a real project. One way to check this could be to see if
any other packages depend on the package considered for inclusion.

Cheers,

Johan

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