[Haskell-cafe] HaskellForge?

[Seth Gordon]

Yitzchak Gale wrote:
> tphyahoo wrote:
> 
>> I think people want something like CPAN. This implies a centralized
>> "official" repository
> 
> 
> I agree.
> 
> I think we also need a notion of a canonical
> standard package for each popular category.

For some categories, it might be better to have a canonial standard
*typeclass* and let various packages derive from that class.

Cf. the Python DB-API (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0249/) and
WSGI (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0333/).