On 14/03/2011 10:33, Christian Maeder wrote:
Am 14.03.2011 06:26, schrieb C K Kashyap:
     Looks like a job for Data.Binary.

     >  I'd like to use it with just the libraries that are part of the
     platform


I forgot to mention, Data.Binary does not seem to be in the platform.

Right, it is not in the platform, but I would recommend to install those
packages that you find useful (and vote for packages to be included into
later versions of the platform.)

Interestingly, there is a hidden package ghc-binary-0.5.0.2, which
almost looks like binary-0.5.0.2.

Maybe ghc developers and platform maintainers could comment on any
differences. If there are none you could simple "ghc-pkg expose
ghc-binary". For future versions of ghc and the platform a single
ghc-binary or binary version would be better.

You shouldn't use ghc-binary. It is indeed the same as binary, and is required because GHC uses it internally, but binary is not a platform package so we renamed it to ghc-binary and set it to be "hidden" by default.

Cheers,
        Simon

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