On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Louis Wasserman
Submit this package for canonicalization as part of the Haskell Platform. I would for one would support its inclusion.
This is an option I seriously hadn't considered. To be fair, that's because I've never used the Platform myself, preferring rather to have the most up-to-date version of GHC at all times, heh. That said, while I'd be okay with this option, I'd prefer putting it into containers, because I feel like a canonical, reliable priority queue implementation is the sort of thing a self-respecting language ought to have built in.
I don't like libraries getting bigger, I like them getting smaller. When they're smaller they're easier to understand and easier to upgrade. So I would also advice proposing your package for the HP (Haskell Platform). I'm even for splitting containers into sub-packages: maps, sets, sequence, graph and tree. Those sub-packages would then need to be added to the HP. Then we could turn containers into a meta-package that depends on these sub-packages (similar to how the HP works[1]). Finally we could deprecate containers and after some time remove it. (I'm also for splitting base even more... but one thing at a time) regards, Bas [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/2009.2.0.2/haskell-platform.cabal