Re: cabal-get minimizing

On 5/4/06, Isaac Jones wrote:

Lemmih writes:

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On 5/2/06, Shae Matijs Erisson wrote:

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Isaac Jones writes:

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Welcome to the cabal-devel mailing list! I'm very please to see so many folks signed up already. I'll just re-post the release announcement that Duncan made below.

I've been hacking on minimizing the cabal-get requirements. I spoke to Bjorn Bringert, he split Network.Browser into its own package so that the Network.HTTP package no longer requires crypto.

Next steps for me are to minimize xml-rpc and its dependency, HaXml.

Why not cut the xml-rpc dependency completely? It should be an evening hack to replace it with, say, BEncode.

Shae also suggested getting rid of xml-rpc. I'm not totally against it, but it would be nice if folks could easily write clients! having a hackage-client packages is helpful here, but it doesn't help for other languages. Suggestions?

Writing a BEncode parser is almost simpler than learning to use an XML-toolkit. Jokes aside, I think our convenience is paramount and inter-language integration should be secondary. If we can get this thing in the air then by all means lets do it and leave these issues to a later version. -- Friendly, Lemmih