Re: Adding System.FilePath

Ian Lynagh wrote:

On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 04:24:21PM +0000, Malcolm Wallace wrote:

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"Neil Mitchell" wrote:

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So can I suggest that the people objecting to inclusion in base:

1) Write the code that adds filepath as a core library, update build scripts for nhc/ghc/hugs, talk to everyone and gather agreement to include the filepath library always, OK, I have added the filepath package to the default builds of nhc98, and agree to distribute it in all future versions of the compiler.

I'm happy to do the work for adding it to GHC, but I'll need to talk to SimonM when he returns about the details first: It would make sense to either do the switch to building with cabal in 6.8 first (thus avoiding needing to add it the Makefile way), or to do it the Makefile way and also put it into 6.6.1 (which obviously has the advantage that it's available RSN by default with GHC; I don't think there's an interface issue here as it's a separate package, but I'd like to get Simon's input first!).

This hasn't come up before, but I don't see any reason why we shouldn't add to the set of core-packages we ship in a minor patchlevel release. Cheers, Simon