ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.10.1 - EditLine / terminalincompatibility?

[Duncan Coutts]

On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 14:59 +0000, Claus Reinke wrote:

> Talking about dependencies of cabal packages:
> 
> - some packages depend on everything and the kitchen-sink,
>     following the "ah, great, here's another package I should use"
>     idea of what it means to provide a modern haskell package.
> 
>     It would be nice if package authors would consider separate minimal 
>     and extended dependencies, the former sufficient to enable the package
>     functionality, the latter enabled by a flag, and only needed for testing 
>     frameworks, parser re-generation, convenience, performance, ..

That's fine so long as it does not change the external api of a package.

> - since Duncan has put in the work for making meta-packages possible
>     for the Haskell Platform anyway, couldn't that be used to group typical
>     dependencies together (eg, ghc corelibs, old extralibs, haskell platform,
>     testing, ..), to make those dependency lists on hackage somewhat
>     easier to comprehend?
> 
>     Probably, hackage/cabal could offer some support for reducing
>     detailed dependencies to standard dependency groups.

Yes, it'd be useful to see what are the "non-standard" deps, ie those
outside of the core libs or the platform libs.

Duncan