Claus Reinke wrote:
- i don't want to have to remove anything explicitly, because that would mean bypassing the haskell installation managers - i would want to see a single haskell installation manager for each system,
I think that's fundamentally the wrong approach. We shouldn't have to build a "Haskell installation manager". Would you also want installation managers for Perl, Python, Ruby, C, C++, etc. each with their own different user interfaces and feature sets? I think not - you want a single package manager for the whole system from which you can install/uninstall libraries for any language. This is something that Windows gets completely wrong. Why do I have twelve icons in my status bar all representing little programs that are running in the background checking for updates to their own bits of software? Why on earth do I have a Printer Driver Update Manager? And I'd be wondering the same thing about a "Haskell installation manager": installation and dependencies are not something specific to Haskell. Cheers, Simon