On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Duncan Coutts <duncan.cou...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 16:40 -0500, David Menendez wrote: > >> The problem with this solution is that it doesn't scale. If we have M >> packages providing types and N packages providing classes, then we >> need M*N additional packages for orphans. >> >> The best long-term solution is probably extending Cabal to handle this >> more transparently, perhaps by allowing packages to depend on flagged >> versions of other packages (e.g., foomonad >= 4.0 && < 4.1 && HAS_MTL) > > Not going to happen. Such packages could not be translated into binary > distro packages.
Do you mean that specific idea won't happen, or that no attempt will be made to reduce the orphan problem? -- Dave Menendez <d...@zednenem.com> <http://www.eyrie.org/~zednenem/> _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
