[Haskell] ANN: Yi 0.6.3

[Brandon Moore]

On 2011-03-28  20:19:15PM Brandon S Allbery KF8NH <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3/28/11 21:15 , Ivan  Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
> > On 29 March 2011 12:10, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH  <allbery.b at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> >> On 3/28/11 17:06 , Ivan Lazar Miljenovic  wrote:
> >>> On 29 March 2011 06:40, Jeff Wheeler <wheele11 at illinois.edu>  wrote:
> >>>> Oh, my bad. I removed this because alex is included  in the Platform,
> >>>> so it seemed like it'd always be available.  I'll add it back.
> >>>
> >>> Not *everyone* has the  Platform installed! (I prefer to install ghc
> >>> and then just the  libraries I need via my package manager).
> >>
> >> So you're  saying that the Platform is pointless?  I think there's some
> >>  miscommunication going on somewhere, if we're all going to pretend  it
> >> doesn't exist.
> > 
> > No, my meaning was that the  reasoning of "I don't need to specify this
> > as a dependency since it's  part of the Platform" isn't sound since not
> > everyone has the  Platform.
> 
> The point of the Platform is to provide a baseline.  So  you *are* saying it
> is pointless, because you want packages to confirm to a  different baseline.

It's reasonable for a package meant to be easily installed to depend on
anything from the platform.

It's not reasonable for a package to incorrectly specificy its dependencies,
just because the union of the specified dependencies and some
random platform release happens to provide all the actual dependencies.

Brandon