4 Aug
2009
4 Aug
'09
12:15 p.m.
marlowsd:
On 04/08/2009 12:57, Sittampalam, Ganesh wrote:
Simon Marlow wrote:
By bringing gtk2hs into the platform, we would be giving the gtk2hs maintainers a helpful boost; they'd get more testing for one thing.
I think that should explicitly not be a reason to bring things into the platform.
*grin* absolutely :)
However, I don't think the platform should just swim around with its mouth open waiting for tasty packages to come along. Sometimes we need to make strategic decisions about what functionality is most important.
I agree with this. There are broader adoption issues we're trying to achieve in this process, after all, and having a better base lib than anyone else helps that. -- Don