Libraries in the repo

[Ian Lynagh]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:06:36AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
> On 27/08/2009 11:25, José Pedro Magalhães wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 18:15, Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com
>> <mailto:marlowsd at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>       * Boot libraries are of several kinds:
>>        - INDEPENDENT: Independently maintained (e.g. time, haskeline)
>>        - COUPLED: Tightly coupled to GHC, but used by others (base)
>>        - SPECIFIC: Totally specific to GHC (e.g. template-haskell, DPH)
>>
>>
>> Does syb fall under INDEPENDENT or COUPLED?
>>
>> In any case, as the syb maintainer, I'd favor (1) too.
>
> I'd say at this stage it's INDEPENDENT.

I think that once we move rebase3-compat (in the next few days, in the
HEAD), the only thing that needs syb is extcore. Is that sufficient that
it is worth keeping it as a core lib?


Thanks
Ian