[Haskell-cafe] expanded standard lib

Justin Bailey jgbailey at gmail.com
Mon Nov 19 14:08:54 EST 2007


On Nov 19, 2007 10:25 AM, brad clawsie <clawsie at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> so far the haskell community has taken the cpan route for most
> practical libs but i wonder if a "batteries included" approach might
> help get some key libraries to a more complete state. in particular, i
> would like to see support for basic internet protocols, database
> connectivity, and potentially xml parser support rolled into the ghc
> standard libs. there is always a strong debate on where the line is

I agree strongly. I particularly miss a "standard" HTTP library.

Justin


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