On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 3:21 AM, Michael Snoyman <michael@snoyman.com> wrote:
> I have no intention of playing the "minimal dependency" game (though I don't
> mind dropping data-default, which accounts for 6 of the dependencies listed
> there). I will point out- as Gershom already did- that in many cases it's
> likely easier to install a few extra Haskell packages than it is to pull in
> OpenSSL as a dependency, especially on Windows. (And that's ignoring the
> fact that http-client-openssl exists.)

Considering users with cabal-install already, that many dependencies
is only a small maintenance problem. Bootstrapping will not be a small
problem.