[Haskell] Re: base libraries

2006-11-27 Thread Paul Johnson
Duncan Coutts wrote: Cabal can be upgraded using Cabal. This is important. I think there are two things here. First, its important that it can be upgraded. Most distributions already have a package management system that can handle this. I just got GHC, Haddock and a bunch of other stuff

[Haskell] Re: base libraries

2006-11-24 Thread Simon Marlow
Simon PJ and I spent some time thinking about this today, and wrote a wiki page. There are several interconnected issues, which makes this hard to discuss on a mailing list. I hope this can evolve into a concrete design for a reorganisation of the packages. Please feel free to edit the wik