s.clover:
On Nov 7, 2010, at 4:13 PM, Neil Mitchell wrote:
HLint is currently GPL licensed, but if that ever became an impediment to anyone doing anything with it I'd be willing to relicense it as BSD, including if that was the only thing blocking inclusion in the platform. HLint relies on cpphs and hscolour which are LGPL/GPL, which may be a problem.
Neil's comments indicate to me that he's willing to do some work to get HLint platform ready. While I don't use HLint, I think it would be an excellent addition to the beginner Haskell experience, and give its inclusion as a core developer tool an enthusiastic +1.
I would like to propose haskell-src-exts for inclusion into the platform along with HLint. It's an excellent package, well tested, and maintained, which provides a core service for anybody interested in DSLs, metaprogramming, or providing developer tools. At a (near) future point, we could then discuss removing haskell-src from the platform.
I think this would make a great contribution in the January round of proposals.
Uniplate and hscolour are also very good packages, but the former is one of many generics solutions, and the latter is rather special purpose. As such, I don't necessarily want to propose them for the platform at this time. But if there's not a straightforward way to coax cabal into installing the binary without the libraries, then there's always the sledgehammer solution of periodically pulling their repos into the HLint source tree.
Hscolour is an optional dep of Haddock (but it also has a problematic license at the moment). We should think about what to do here. -- Don