Hi, Am Donnerstag, den 16.06.2016, 09:16 +0100 schrieb Tom Ellis:
* Makes it more difficult for a potential future where versions of base are less tightly coupled to GHC and can thus be installed separately (rather than needing a new version of GHC to get a new feature from base)
Is that really realistic?
maybe more than I expected; see https://groups.google.com/d/msg/haskell-core-libraries/TV0yGnfBTf4/7SJuOcfiB... and the following messages for a way forward. Short summary: It is not unlikely that base could just become a "normal" package that you can upgrade. The main blocker is that in a build plan where there "ghc" library is involved this would require you to be able to recompile that library. But Herbert seems to be on that. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim “nomeata” Breitner mail@joachim-breitner.de • https://www.joachim-breitner.de/ XMPP: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de • OpenPGP-Key: 0xF0FBF51F Debian Developer: nomeata@debian.org