Most popular libraries not in the HP

[Don Stewart]

niklas.broberg:
> > According to the 2010 download stats, the most popular libs *not* in the
> > Haskell Platform, by category are :
> >
> > Libs
> >    binary       (rank  5/2200)
> >    utf8-string  (rank  7/2200)
> >    ghc-paths    (rank 15/2200) -- needed by haddock!
> >    hslogger     (rank 16/2200  -- LPGL
> >    ...
> 
> And haskell-src-exts (rank 10/2200) is considered already in, or what? ;-)

It might be a good goal to have haskell-src-exts replace haskell-src
by the time of the next major release,

    http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/ReleaseTimetable

Which means a proposal, after the release next week:

    http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/AddingPackages

Similarly for text, vector, binary.

-- Don