Libraries and hierarchies

Ganesh Sittampalam ganesh@earth.li
Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:57:47 +0100


On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 11:24:39 +0100, "Simon Marlow" <simonmar@microsoft.com>
wrote:

>Ok, but as I mentioned before we'd like to keep package names as short
>as possible, for two reasons: they will be included in symbol names in a
>compiled library, and because it's just easier to talk about "hgl-1.0"
>than it is to talk about "http://haskell.org/packages#hgl-1.0".

A trivial point, but one that could cause some pain if not addressed: this
should become http://haskell.org/packages/hgl-1.0 (or possibly even
http://haskell.org/packages/hgl/1.0), otherwise the "packages" page will get
very large having to list every possible version of every possible package.

Cheers,

Ganesh