On 2011-03-28 20:19:15PM Brandon S Allbery KF8NH <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 3/28/11 21:15 , Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: > > On 29 March 2011 12:10, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. It's reasonable for a package meant to be easily installed to depend on anything from the platform. It's not reasonable for a package to incorrectly specificy its dependencies, just because the union of the specified dependencies and some random platform release happens to provide all the actual dependencies. Brandon _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
