hello, it's funny because that was my though as soon as i saw the message :-). on more careful reading the monad transformers are mentioned (right after QuickCheck). by the way i have a few overall library related questions: 1. at what point should we remove the Unstable.* name, i.e. does anyone have any criteria besides "it seems to work"? most software these days seems to be distributed on this basis, so perhaps we should adapt this as well. i don't have time to prove the corectness of the monad library, but it seems to work. i can't gurantee that there are no bugs, and i don't think we should freeze its interface as soon as the Unstable.* bit is removed (especially for some of the newer transformers). i think "releasing" the library is a good idea as it will give more people the opportunity to use it, hence find bugs in the implementation or the interface. 2. how does one go about distributing a library that is in the fptools repository? it would seem that at the moment there is a lot of burocratic overhead that goes on when i type "make", i am not sure what it does, or which bits of the fptools need to be distributed together with the actual source of the library. of course i can replace the make file with my own that does only what is necessary but i figured it is nicer if i use the "standard method" bye iavor Ross Paterson wrote:
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 11:11:54AM +0000, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
In other recent news, the common 'base' package of libraries has recently been subdivided to separate off non-core functionality, making the core more stable, whilst enabling independent evolution of the other libraries. The split-off packages include parsec, QuickCheck, and the monad transformers. Other packages resident in the haskell.org CVS tree include OpenGL, GLUT, HaXml, Japi (Java API), ObjectIO, Win32, X11, HGL (Haskell Graphics Library), haskell-src, network, readline, and unix.
Tiny quibble: the monad transformers aren't gone yet; presumably they will when Iavor's new version is ready. _______________________________________________ Libraries mailing list Libraries@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries
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