Haskell Platform Proposal: HLint

[Niklas Broberg]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Ian Lynagh <igloo at earth.li> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 11:41:18PM -0500, Sterling Clover wrote:
>>
>> I would like to propose haskell-src-exts for inclusion into the
>> platform [...] At a (near) future point, we could then discuss
>> removing haskell-src from the platform.
>
> (Speaking as someone entirely unfamiliar with both packages, so this may
> be a crazy idea), I wonder if it might be better rename haskell-src-exts
> to haskell-src and for this to just be a major version bump. After all,
> nowadays more and more "extensions" are going to be part of the
> language, and who would actually use haskell-src once haskell-src-exts
> is part of the platform?

I'm in favor.

Cheers,

/Niklas