Hello Simon, Wednesday, February 22, 2006, 12:53:09 PM, you wrote: SM> simplicity, packages are the unit in several concepts: distribution, SM> dependency, versioning, licensing, dynamic linking, include file SM> dependencies, external library dependencies, and more. If we start SM> confusing the issue by having smaller units for some of these concepts, SM> things get even more complicated. i definitely don't want to create packages just to add to my application several C-defined functions. and moreover i think that it will make using FFI in Haskell harder for novices. now it's rather simple with ghc and i will be happy to preserve this simplicity. this means "please preserve ability to specify include files and make this uniform for all haskell'-compilers". -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com