On Nov 21, 2007 5:59 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2.  We absolutely must not conflate GHC releases with QA-stamped library 
> bundles.  The latter would be great, but the two must be separate.  (For 
> reasons given by others in this thread.)

Someone in a previous thread made an analogy between GHC and the linux
kernel. I imagine that third-party Haskell distributions, consisting
of GHC/Hugs/whatever and some bundled packages, would meet the desire
for a "batteries included" Haskell implementation without tying the
most popular libraries to GHC releases.

-- 
Dave Menendez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<http://www.eyrie.org/~zednenem/>
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