On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Yitzchak Gale
I agree with most of Alexander's many thoughtful comments about Don's list of potential additions to HP. But I disagree about pandoc. [...] So yes, pandoc should definitely be included in the platform.
I should preface this by saying that while I'm an experienced Python programmer, I'm *very* new to Haskell. As I understand it, Pandoc is entirely under the GPL (not LGPL). I'd be very wary of accepting a GPL'd library as a blessed "standard" library, since it would be completely unusable for non-GPL projects. One of the nice things about the Python standard library is that you know it's liberally licensed; a programmer can feel free to use it for any project, whether proprietary or copyleft or otherwise. I don't think I'd feel comfortable using or recommending the Haskell Platform if "batteries included" came with such a serious caveat.