On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 11:23:57PM +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote:
All this seems to indicate that the Prelude is not a part of the "haskell98" package. Is this the case, and if so, is this intentional? It would be nice if we could create Cabal packages that explicitly indicate that the library depends only on Haskell 98 libraries.
Its true, and its intentional. The trend nowadays is to make programs depend only on base, not only on haskell98 - i.e. import System.Environment (and others) instead of System. hakell98 will be around forever, but base is the new "standard libraries" set.
Right, the problem is that if Prelude was in haskell98 then it wouldn't be possible to have a program that /didn't/ depend on haskell98 (short of -fno-implicit-prelude extensions, or having a Prelude in both (which would mean you couldn't depend on both base and haskell98)). Thanks Ian