[Haskell-cafe] ANN: unix-2.4.0.0 additional POSIX real time support

[Ian Lynagh]

On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 11:21:40PM -0700, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
> vigalchin:
> >    so Don you are saying that mqueue and RTsched I should put on Hackage to
> >    avoid putting in the Unix package? Vis-a-vis fsync and fdatasync I have no
> >    choice .. they both IMO belong in Files.hsc.
> 
>     2) submit it as a patch to the libraries at haskell.org mailing list,
>     and it can be put in the main 'unix' darcs repository, which then
>     gets uploaded to hackage in the next release cycle.

Or better still, follow
    http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Library_submissions
so it doesn't end up being overlooked and forgotten about.

> It's currently a bug that anyone can (accidentally) release their own
> versions of the core libraries.

Yes, this mix-up is really our fault; we don't advertise or enforce our
policies well enough (I'm not even sure if we've got total agreement on
what they are?).

It's also raised an interesting question of who can upload the packages
maintained by libraries at . I guess we just create a sensible looking list
of people (roughly equal to those who release Haskell implementations
probably makes sense).


Thanks
Ian