On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Thomas Miedema
on the library submissions page on the Haskell wiki it says: "The core libraries ... define basic APIs that are expected to be available in any Haskell implementation."
Is this list of those core libraries and their maintainers up-to-date: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Library_submissions#The_Core_Libraries
I am asking, since GHC 7.8.3 also includes: * binary * bytestring * filepath * haskeline * hoopl * integer-gmp * terminfo * transformers But they are not core libraries. Is that correct?
There is a difference between the libraries needed to provide a core usable Haskell installation, and the libraries required for a particular Haskell implementation (in this case ghc) to provide basic functionality. For example, integer-gmp is an artifact of how GHC implements bigints, and haskeline and terminfo are required for ghci's line editing. We generally distinguish between "core libraries" and "GHC bootstrap libraries" ("bootlibs"). -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net