-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 3/28/11 21:15 , Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: > On 29 March 2011 12:10, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH <[email protected]> wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 3/28/11 17:06 , Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: >>> On 29 March 2011 06:40, Jeff Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Oh, my bad. I removed this because alex is included in the Platform, >>>> so it seemed like it'd always be available. I'll add it back. >>> >>> Not *everyone* has the Platform installed! (I prefer to install ghc >>> and then just the libraries I need via my package manager). >> >> So you're saying that the Platform is pointless? I think there's some >> miscommunication going on somewhere, if we're all going to pretend it >> doesn't exist. > > No, my meaning was that the reasoning of "I don't need to specify this > as a dependency since it's part of the Platform" isn't sound since not > everyone has the Platform.
The point of the Platform is to provide a baseline. So you *are* saying it is pointless, because you want packages to confirm to a different baseline. - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [email protected] system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] kf8nh -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk2RM5MACgkQIn7hlCsL25UgggCg01PqGZflU7EQdEa03TR9sMEE CrwAoICxWlsJmPhhq3MEbSdkzyR1x+CL =km8w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
