On 02 July 2004 21:28, Alastair Reid wrote:
i would prefer that the library had an independent distribution, and can be easily downloaded and experimented with.
Perhaps it would be a good candidate for the new packaging infrastructure?
btw Note that distributing it independently doesn't mean that it can't live in the main cvs.haskell.org cvs repository. (The converse doesn't appear to be true: if you want it to become part of the standard distribs, it probably has to live in cvs.haskell.org just to keep it easy for the distrib builders who tend to like to be able to create branches, tag the repository when they make a release, etc.)
As far as the main libraries repository goes, I'd like to split this into two stages: 1. Bring in Map, Set, IntMap, and IntSet. I think we're all agreed that these are the right thing. 2. Resolve the outstanding issues regarding overloaded sequences. I find Ross's arguments in favour of a Sequence class fairly persuasive, but I haven't heard many other comments on the subject. Cheers, Simon