On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Jason Dagit <dag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I expect it would be different in the way that anything installed as > part of the platform is different: It's a blessed version and part of > a coherent set of packages. > But as an add-on pack, why not just publish WxHaskell-Stable with a set of .cabal constraints that tie it to a particular HP version? There really isn't anything "blessed" by being in the HP - it is just a stable set that the individual package maintainers pick. No reason the WxHaskell maintainers can't do the same. > > Why not just package WxHaskell in a way that cabal install WxHaskell is > > sufficient? > > This does not seem to be an attainable goal for packages that have > substantial non-haskell dependencies. For example, despite lots of > effort Gtk2hs is still quite cumbersome to install. I've heard this argument before for inclusion of something in the Platform - and I don't understand it. The platform has no secret sauce for making things installable. If the Gtk2hs team can't find a way to make installing Gtk2hs easy, the Platform team certainly isn't going to be able to figure it out!
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