Hi, While I'd dearly love for FilePath to go in, the API is not quite stable enough yet - I have another few API changes that I need to make before I send out another version that is suitable for inclusion to base, so i'd like to make those changes first, have another round of review etc. then go into extra-libs. (Just to be clear, there will be a compatability layer between FilePath new and FilePath old so existing app's based on FilePath are not just going to get broken overnight :) ) Thanks Neil On 9/19/06, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:

Hello glasgow-haskell-users,

how about adding to the list of extra libs the following very useful ones:

regex-* FilePath MissingH Edison

?

-- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com

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On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 08:45:30PM +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:

Hello glasgow-haskell-users,

how about adding to the list of extra libs the following very useful ones:

I think we're too late in the release process to be adding libraries. Also, I think we would like to move towards distributing fewer libraries, not more. For 6.8 I hope we can do something like drop the extra-libs tarball, but have the build process do a topological sort of everything in libraries/ and build the lot. That way if you want to bundle a given set of libs in the Windows installer, or whatever, then you just instruct cabal-get to give you the source tarballs for those libs, and anything they depend on (would need to tell it you have the core libraries already somehow), put them in libraries/ and build in the normal way. This would neatly sidestep any arguments about what packages are important/common/small/... enough that they should go in extralibs.

regex-*

I'm not sure if you are refering to other packages, but regex-base, regex-compat and regex-posix are already core libraries. Thanks Ian