Alastair Reid
[Of course, much of the above is true if you replace 'Hugs' with 'NHC' but I'm not certain of the exact status of NHC at the moment so I'll let them speak for themselves.]
I concur wholeheartedly with everything Alastair says. Between the three Haskell implementations, we have already puts lots of effort into ensuring that the "standard" population of the hierarchical library namespace is as portable as possible. A mechanism to make the packaging of third-party libraries as painless as possible is highly desirable, and rather than target it solely at ghc, I think we should similarly aim for the maximum portability. This can only help the exposure that new libraries get, and reduce the burden on the independent developer. Regards, Malcolm