On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Don Stewart <don...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Mark. > > Some comments: > > * random: yep, we just move it into the library set. > * deepseq is in the list of supported libs, so we just have to make sure > it is on every system - if it comes with ghc that's ok. > * integer-* aren't parts of the platform, so we don't explicitly require > them (same with hoopl, dph etc) > * bump alex > * OpenGL -- that's a tough one. > > With OpenGL we are stalled - the package addition policy says that we > have to get things like "ObjectNAme" and "StateVar" would have to be > blessed for inclusion -- this will never happen. > > We need a version of OpenGL where those libs are private to OpenGL, and > not exposed to regular Haskell users, then we can upgrade. Time has shown > that they are small utilitiy libs only used by the GL package, so I think: > /they should be folded into OpenGL, with maintainer support, then we can > upgrade safely. > A few of them are used in other packages by Sven (like OpenAL), but as far as I can tell OpenAL doesn't actually build anywhere (I only tried windows/osx). Is that all I need to change (moving the extra stuff into an opengl namespace)? > > Jason can likely help us with this. > What is my deadline for this? Thanks, Jason
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