Re: [Haskell-cafe] Could C libraries be part of Haskell Platform?

On Jul 12, 2009, at 13:40 , Maurí cio wrote:

Probably not, but... There are stable and portable libraries that implement functionality missing in Haskell. It could be nice to be able to list then in a cabal file (using, say, pkgconfig-depends) and know for sure that any system with Haskell Platform will have then available for use with FFI. An example would be sqlite3.

I think we currently address this by including the C libraries with the Haskell bindings (e.g. zlib). -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH