On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 07:32:06PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > I have started a wikipage with the list of all modules from base, for a > first round of shuffling, grouping and brainstorming: > > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/SplitBase
Great, thanks for taking the lead on this! > > > > The disadvantage is that, at some point between the first release and > > > > the release that removes base, each package will have to have its > > > > dependencies updated. > > > > > > Why remove base? If it is just a list of dependencies and list of > > > modules to be re-exported, then keeping it (but advocate that it should > > > not be used) should not be too much a burden. > > > > * Any package using it doesn't benefit from the reduced version bumps, > > so we do actually want packages to move away from it > > We want them to do so. We should not force them (most surely will...) A lot of packages won't react until something actually breaks. (and I suspect many are unmaintained and unused, and won't react even once it does break). > > * Even though base (probably) wouldn't require a lot of work at any one > > time, it would require a little work every now and again, and that > > adds up to a lot of work > > Hopefully it is just updating the set of modules to be exported, sounds > like it could be automated, given a list of packages. > > > * Any time a module is added to one of the new packages, either we'd > > have to spend time adding it to base too, or packages continuing to > > use base wouldn't (easily) be able to use that new module. > > Hence we should add them; shouldn’t be too much work. I realised that there's actually no reason that the new 'base' package has to come with GHC (even immediately after the break-up); it can just be a package on Hackage (and, if desired, in the Haskell Platform). So it could easily be maintained by someone else, and thus be not much work for you, and 0 work for me :-) Thanks Ian _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
