Packages in GHC 6.6

[Brian Hulley]

Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> 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

Ok I see now, that the whole point is to avoid having to download everything 
every time the ghc version changes, so I withdraw my suggestion about 
including mtl in the core :-)
Brian.
-- 
Logic empowers us and Love gives us purpose.
Yet still phantoms restless for eras long past,
congealed in the present in unthought forms,
strive mightily unseen to destroy us.

http://www.metamilk.com