[jhc] darcs patch: Get Data.Typeable to compile

[Samuel Bronson]

On 3/17/08, John Meacham <john at repetae.net> wrote:
> Well, it depends. Ideally what I want is for the 'jhc' distribution to
> contain just the haskell' libraries (once they are finalized) which will
> likely be much smaller than the current extended 'base' that ghc uses,
> so I don't want to get in the habit of importing code from the ghc repo
> in large quantities.
>
> that said, for practical reasons, and since a lot of the stuff in ghc
> base isn't separately packaged, I do need some way to make it available.
> I think what would be best is to have the current 'base' library just
> contain a fairly minimal base, what we expect to be in haskell' or what
> is jhc specific enough to be interesting.as well as what is enough to
> build 'haskell98'. then create another 'base-extras' library which will
> contain mostly unchanged code from the ghc repo that is in ghc's base.
> like System.Console.GetOpts can probably go there.

Wouldn't it be more sensible to put the JHC-specific code in a library
called jhcbase, like hugs does (only of course theirs is called
hugsbase or something), and just use the "base" repository that
everyone else uses for the not-really-jhc-specific bits?