patch applied (packages/base): Move Integer out into its own package

Ian Lynagh igloo at earth.li
Mon Mar 24 16:03:10 EDT 2008


Hi Simon,

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:45:37AM +0000, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> 
> Do you think it'd be possible to write a GHC Wiki page explaining the architecture of the packages that are essential to build GHC, and their various dependencies, along with the rationale for the way they are divided up?

I'm not sure what I could usefully say - for the most part it would just
be things like:
    directory       Functions for dealing with directories
The rationale is currently mostly "historical reasons".

I've just added a package dependency graph to the GHC section of
    http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/PackageReorg
(you need to click on it for it to be easily readable); I couldn't
really see a better place for it currently. Perhaps at some point we can
rename PackageReorg to PackageOrg, and that will have the rationale etc.

I've also updated some other bits of the above page that had become out
of date.


Thanks
Ian



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