On 2014-01-21 at 20:22:48 +0100, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote: > I feel this blurs the roles of GHC and the Platform.
IMO, that's a weak argument, as the roles are already blurred: GHC comes with `haddock`, `hp2ps`, and `hpc` executables which could be provided by the HP instead. Moreover, GHC ships with a set of base libraries (which, and thus effectively GHC forces 20 or so packages (fixed to specific package versions) into the HP and takes away authority from the HP release process. But now the difficult to explain thing is that GHC also bundles the library part of CABAL but deliberately leaves out CABAL's frontend tool `cabal-install` only to justify the existence of the HP a bit more? :-) Cheers, hvr _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
