Clark Gaebel
How would the ghc-dependance affect hashable's inclusion in the haskell platform? Doesn't the haskell platform ship only a recent version of ghc (i.e. one with support for generics)?
I was under the impression that the haskell platform, albeit currently bundling GHC, aims for portability, as in [1] its required that a package | * Compile on all operating systems and compilers that the platform targets. [rationale-8.4] and in [2] there's a (somewhat weaker) mention of portability as well: | *Portability*. Good code is portable. In particular, try to ensure the | code runs in Hugs and GHC, and on Windows and Linux. Maybe Hugs is a bit too outdated/unmaintained, but on the other hand maybe JHC and UHC compatibility should be aimed for instead these days for core packages? [1]: http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/AddingPackages#Packagerequirem... [2]: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Library_submissions#Guidance_for_proposer...