Magnus Therning wrote:
Many other programming languages have packaging strategies that sound very similar. Several of them have managed to have a negative impact on platforms that already have good packaging technologies (i.e. almost every platform apart from Windows ;-). I'd hate to see Haskell go in a direction where packaging for e.g. Debian is made more difficult than it is at the moment.
I think that's a reasonable fear. In black moments, I share this fear with the Cabal Cabal. Fortunately, they assure me that they're well aware of this issue and don't intend it to become a problem. As someone in another reply points out, it's a considerable comfort that many of the CC are also package maintainers for other distributions. They know about this stuff :) Jules