Re: Libraries in the repo

2009/9/11 Ian Lynagh :

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:06:36AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:

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On 27/08/2009 11:25, José Pedro Magalhães wrote:

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Hello,

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 18:15, Simon Marlow mailto:marlowsd@gmail.com> wrote:

      * Boot libraries are of several kinds:        - INDEPENDENT: Independently maintained (e.g. time, haskeline)        - COUPLED: Tightly coupled to GHC, but used by others (base)        - SPECIFIC: Totally specific to GHC (e.g. template-haskell, DPH)

Does syb fall under INDEPENDENT or COUPLED?

In any case, as the syb maintainer, I'd favor (1) too.

I'd say at this stage it's INDEPENDENT.

I think that once we move rebase3-compat (in the next few days, in the HEAD), the only thing that needs syb is extcore. Is that sufficient that it is worth keeping it as a core lib?

I've meant for a long time to split off the ext-core library and put it on Hackage, since it isn't required to build GHC. I'll be doing that in the immediate future, so then, ext-core won't be a reason to keep syb coupled. Cheers, Tim -- Tim Chevalier * http://cs.pdx.edu/~tjc/ * Often in error, never in doubt "an intelligent person fights for lost causes,realizing that others are merely effects" -- E.E. Cummings