I also thought about it recently. IIRC ghc can already deal with any
number of stacked package dbs; we only need to expose this somehow
through cabal.
On 22/03/15 11:52, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
> On 2015-03-21 at 18:54:26 +0100, Mark Lentczner wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> The Platform arose in an
Mark Lentczner wrote:
> 1) Abandon the Platform…
>
> 2) Slim the Platform. Pare it back to GHC + base + a smaller set of
> "essential" libs + tools. Keeps a consistent build layout and installation
> mechanism for Haskell.
>
> 3) Re-conceive the Platform. Take a very minimal install approach, coupl
Thanks for kicking this off Mark. Here is what I think happened. We fragmented
along two lines.
A) Users that sandbox and users that do not.
B) Libraries that maintain HP compatibility and libraries that do not.
The growth of non HP-compat libs is clearly what has driven the growth in
sandboxin
I've gone ahead and built a very provisional, alpha version of 2015.2.0.0
using GHC 7.10 RC3.
I bumped all the GHC libs to the versions in 7.10, and bumped all the
Platform libs to the latest versions I could find on Hackage. There were a
few issues:
- *old-locale and old-time* - no longer par
