Hello Simon, Tuesday, August 22, 2006, 2:11:46 PM, you wrote:
- A source tree can optionally be populated with more packages, which will be included in the build as normal. At the moment, the only packages you can add in this way are:
ALUT, HGL, HUnit, OpenAL, OpenGL, QuickCheck, X11, cgi, fgl, haskell-src, html, mtl, network, parsec, time, xhtml
- We will continue to bundle the .tar.bz2 binary distributions, and the Windows installer, with all the optional packages.
i'm agree with all that you said except for this moment. although it's more to Sigbjorn as a builder of Windows installer, i think that monolithic GHC installations should exclude large and rarely used graphics/sound packages: ObjectIO, GLUT, HGL, OpenGL, OpenAL, X11, ALUT and possibly HaXml and instead include smaller and more "fundamental" packages: ByteString, regexps, Collections, Edisson, Filepath, Time, networking, web. This will allow to cut down size of installer at about 20% and at the same time improve support of "basic" clocks that's required in any program. i think that inclusion of large packages in installer - independent of how great they are - is a wrong decision. -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com