2009/9/11 Ian Lynagh <[email protected]>: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:06:36AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: >> On 27/08/2009 11:25, José Pedro Magalhães wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 18:15, Simon Marlow <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> * Boot libraries are of several kinds: >>> - INDEPENDENT: Independently maintained (e.g. time, haskeline) >>> - COUPLED: Tightly coupled to GHC, but used by others (base) >>> - SPECIFIC: Totally specific to GHC (e.g. template-haskell, DPH) >>> >>> >>> Does syb fall under INDEPENDENT or COUPLED? >>> >>> In any case, as the syb maintainer, I'd favor (1) too. >> >> I'd say at this stage it's INDEPENDENT. > > I think that once we move rebase3-compat (in the next few days, in the > HEAD), the only thing that needs syb is extcore. Is that sufficient that > it is worth keeping it as a core lib? >
I've meant for a long time to split off the ext-core library and put it on Hackage, since it isn't required to build GHC. I'll be doing that in the immediate future, so then, ext-core won't be a reason to keep syb coupled. Cheers, Tim -- Tim Chevalier * http://cs.pdx.edu/~tjc/ * Often in error, never in doubt "an intelligent person fights for lost causes,realizing that others are merely effects" -- E.E. Cummings _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
