Hello Simon, Tuesday, August 22, 2006, 2:11:46 PM, you wrote:
> - A source tree can optionally be populated with more packages, > which will be included in the build as normal. At the moment, > the only packages you can add in this way are: > > ALUT, HGL, HUnit, OpenAL, OpenGL, QuickCheck, X11, cgi, > fgl, haskell-src, html, mtl, network, parsec, time, xhtml > - We will continue to bundle the .tar.bz2 binary distributions, and > the Windows installer, with all the optional packages. i'm agree with all that you said except for this moment. although it's more to Sigbjorn as a builder of Windows installer, i think that monolithic GHC installations should exclude large and rarely used graphics/sound packages: ObjectIO, GLUT, HGL, OpenGL, OpenAL, X11, ALUT and possibly HaXml and instead include smaller and more "fundamental" packages: ByteString, regexps, Collections, Edisson, Filepath, Time, networking, web. This will allow to cut down size of installer at about 20% and at the same time improve support of "basic" clocks that's required in any program. i think that inclusion of large packages in installer - independent of how great they are - is a wrong decision. -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
