Re: [Haskell-cafe] expanded standard lib

On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 21:47 +0100, Radosław Grzanka wrote:

2007/11/19, brad clawsie :

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The problem is that only one person gets to comment on the quality of a library, the author, who is about the least objective person.

by rolling certain libraries into a base distribution, i was implying that there would be more eyeballs focusing on making them feature-complete. furthermore, by closely associating these libraries into a base distribution, there will be a sense of urgency associated with closing major bugs.

If you look at the stability tag of ghc libraries you will see that a lot of them are marked as "provisional" (Network.URI for example) or "experimental" (Control.Monad.Trans). Although I would love to see some other standard libraries (MaybeT !), I think that current base should be solid first.

On the other hand, some of these (Control.Monad.Trans) have been "experimental" for several years despite being widely used that whole time...