Contribution vs quality, and a few notes on the Platform process

[Ian Lynagh]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 11:45:51AM +0000, Stephen Tetley wrote:
> 
> HOpenGL has value in the current Platform model as it can be difficult
> to build on certain platforms; but it is a very large work and quite
> domain-specific so it is not exemplary in API terms like a candidate
> for the Data.* or Control.* hierarchies should be.

Based on this, it sounds like rather than HOpenGL being in the platform,
there should be HOpenGL binary installers for certain platforms. Perhaps
cabal-install would automatically use these installers rather than
building from source.

Although IIRC, the arguments for including HOpenGL were that it is
widely useful and its API is exemplary.


Thanks
Ian