Foreign.GreenCard.StdDIS (was Re: X11 libraries)

[Alastair Reid]

When I got back to work on putting an HGL release together, I realized that 
I'd have to do a fresh release of GreenCard first since it has a bunch of 
updates to work with hierarchial names, ffi, etc.  The GreenCard distrib 
contains what ought to be the master copy of the StdDIS.{gc,hs} so I figure 
it ought to be made a proper library package, put in the hierarchial library 
namespace, etc.  Obvious places to put it in the library hierarchy are:

  Foreign.GreenCard.StdDIS.hs
  GreenCard.StdDIS.hs
  Apps.GreenCard.StdDIS.hs
  <SomeOtherPrefix>.GreenCard.StdDIS.hs

A variant on this is to recognize that this is the only file in the library 
and drop the trailing /StdDIS:

  Foreign.GreenCard.hs
  GreenCard.hs
  Apps.GreenCard.hs
  <SomeOtherPrefix>.GreenCard.hs

Any opinions?

(btw it seems like we might see more apps with support libraries -especially 
if the app generates Haskell code- so this may be an instance of a more 
general problem.)

[btw GreenCard raises an additional issue for any library building/ packaging 
infrastructure.  If you want to use GreenCard, you need StdDIS.gc and (the 
makefile which invokes) GreenCard needs to know where to find it.  So we need 
a standard place for it to live or a way to locate it once installed.]

--
Alastair

Alastair Reid mentioned:
> [...]
>      Graphics.X11.StdDIS  -- should be shared by all GC'd files
> [...]
> [StdDIS is just a copy of the file included in GreenCard distributions
> and would go away if we were to do the sensible thing and have a
> single StdDIS somewhere in the libraries tree.]

On Wednesday 02 April 2003 2:48 pm, Simon Marlow wrote:
> For StdDIS, if it is shared by all greencard-generated source, then it
> probably should be something like Greencard.StdDIS and kept in a
> separate greencard package.  For now, putting it in Graphics.X11.StdDIS
> (and not advertising its existence) should be fine.