On Sunday, November 29, 2015 at 5:37:35 PM UTC+1, Peter Simons wrote:
Omari Norman writes:
Someone installing an application can just use stack and Stackage.
I wonder how many people would be using XMonad, git-annex, etc. if this view were common place among application developers.
I'm pretty sure that a large part of the user base of these tools has no clue "stack" exists, even, and the only reason why they can install these programs is because their distributions package manager allows then to do so without exposing them to any Haskell-specific build tools.
I guess you're thinking of different markets: "uses git-annex" is indeed (probably) orthogonal even to "knows there's a programming language called Haskell" (I might be exaggerating); I agree there distributing via Hackage is not a good option. But developers of, say, `hlint` have (I guess arguably) another target audience — Haskell developers; my question was about this audience, and Omari Norman's answer makes sense there.