andrewcoppin:
Hackage seems like a nice idea in principle. However,
I think in practice too: we had no central lib archive or dependency system, now we have 400 libraries, and a package installer, 10 months later. Until Hackage, there was a strong pressure not to reuse other people's libraries.
- The packages seem to be of quite variable quality. Some are excellent, some are rather poor (or just not maintained any more).
1. Welcome to the internet.
- Almost all packages seem to require a long list of dependencies.
2. Solved with cabal: cabal install foo Resolves package deps. Reusing libraries is a good thing.
- There seems to be an awful lot of packages that do the same thing but with incompatible interfaces (and varying limitations). It seems we're not very coordinated here.
See #1.
- (And, since I'm on Windows, I can't seem to get anything to install with Cabal...)
3. Report a bug. We need more developers on windows, for window to improve. -- Don