On 22 March 2012 13:34, Mark Lentczner <m...@glyphic.com> wrote: > So the big change for Haskell Platform would be addition of haskeline, > terminfo & utf8-string into the platform. > > Am I right in thinking that this matters because other exposed packages that > come with GHC will export interfaces using types from these packages, right? > Because if not, then there would be no need to expose these - they could be > hidden.
No they could be hidden. They would need to be included but not necessarily exposed if that makes a difference here. > > The concern about adding them would be, of course, like adding any library > to the platform: Is it going to be an interface that is stable, supportable, > more-or-less standard fare, and the obvious choice to promote. > > I would worry about promoting utf8-string in parallel with text. The later > is surely a better way to go. > > Haskeline & terminfo seem like very specific, non-general packages, both of > which have alternatives. I'm not sure how to think about their inclusion. > What alternatives would you suggest? I can try to rewrite the code in question using more acceptable packages if they provide the needed features. Cheers, David _______________________________________________ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform
