21 Nov
2007
21 Nov
'07
9:47 a.m.
On Nov 21, 2007 5:59 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones
2. We absolutely must not conflate GHC releases with QA-stamped library bundles. The latter would be great, but the two must be separate. (For reasons given by others in this thread.)
Someone in a previous thread made an analogy between GHC and the linux
kernel. I imagine that third-party Haskell distributions, consisting
of GHC/Hugs/whatever and some bundled packages, would meet the desire
for a "batteries included" Haskell implementation without tying the
most popular libraries to GHC releases.
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Dave Menendez