Haskell Platform Proposal: HLint

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 5 November 2010 19:53, Max Bolingbroke <batterseapower at hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 4 November 2010 08:40, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
> <ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Except the Platform is based on the sources, etc. ...
>
> This is not really an issue as the makefile can:
> 1. Install uniplate, src-exts etc into a temporary location and a
> temporary package list
> 2. Compile hint wrt. that file
> 3. Zap the temporary package list and temporarily installed libraries
>
> So you still get the source code for those packages in your Platform
> download but they never show up in "ghc-pkg list" for the user.

Ummm... I should be able to download the GHC source tarball (or
generic unix binary) + the HP source tarball and be good to go from
there.

Anyway, it's official policy:
http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/AddingPackages#PackageRequirements

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Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
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