Packages in GHC 6.6

Bulat Ziganshin bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com
Tue Aug 22 10:05:11 EDT 2006


Hello Brian,

Tuesday, August 22, 2006, 5:52:29 PM, you wrote:

>>    "sh darcs-all get" in a darcs repo.  The core packages are:
>>
>>       base, haskell98, template-haskell, readline, stm,
>>       Cabal, unix, Win32
>>

> Should mtl not also be included here too as it is a relatively small package
> but seems fundamental to monadic programming which is one of the major
> highlights of Haskell?

> Ie doesn't almost everyone use at least one of the mtl transformers in their
> code?

the idea is not "what we all use", but "what a required to build ghc
itself, or closely depend on ghc version". i instead may propose to
remove unix/win32 here - i guess that these packages are rather
independent on GHC version


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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com



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