On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 10:54:28AM +0300, Bulat Ziganshin wrote: > > second, every year Haskell committee should decide which libraries of > currently Hackage-available are most widely used, portable and free, > and call this set a "Haskell-xxxx standard libraries", together with > versions inspected.
See also: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/ticket/118 (We should also write down somewhere exactly which libraries must follow http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Library_submissions) > H2008 libs: base 3.0, FPS 1.0, Binary 1.0 > H2009 libs: base 3.0, FPS 2.0, SuperBinary 0.1 > > With above-mentioned versioning policy, this means that any > "FPS 1.0.*" will comply to the H08 standard and this means that this > line of version may continue to fix bugs, improve performance, add > support for new systems, while keeping its interface Note that according to the versioning policy FPS 1.0.1 can, for example, export functions that 1.0.0 doesn't export. > One important drawback that i see here is that "full" compiler > downloads should be shipped with older library versions too - i.e. > providing newest FPS library will be not enough, you need to ship > older HSL libraries too Personally I think it is best to avoid having more than one version of a library installed. That way you don't have problems when you try to use 2 libraries, and one thinks that ByteString is fps-1.0:Data.ByteString.ByteString and another that it is fps-2.0:Data.ByteString.ByteString, resulting in type mismatch errors. Thanks Ian _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
