What are the advantages of batteries included? 1) It's easier for newcomers to find the appropriate library for common tasks. 2) Consistency between different programs, as they will mostly use the same standard libraries for common tasks. Do these require the batteries to be installed with the compiler? Do they require the batteries to be installed as a monolithic unit at all? An "official" wiki page pointing to the recommended packages for common tasks would seem to achieve the purpose almost as well, but without the accompanying problems. As for sets of specific library versions that are known to work well together, Stackage has already solved that. -- View this message in context: http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/Re-Batteries-included-Was-GHC-is-a-mono... Sent from the Haskell - Haskell-Cafe mailing list archive at Nabble.com.