Re: Libraries and hierarchies

On Monday, 2003-08-11, 16:57 Ganesh Sittampalam wrote:

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 11:24:39 +0100, "Simon Marlow" wrote:

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Ok, but as I mentioned before we'd like to keep package names as short as possible, for two reasons: they will be included in symbol names in a compiled library, and because it's just easier to talk about "hgl-1.0" than it is to talk about "http://haskell.org/packages#hgl-1.0".

A trivial point, but one that could cause some pain if not addressed: this should become http://haskell.org/packages/hgl-1.0 (or possibly even http://haskell.org/packages/hgl/1.0), otherwise the "packages" page will get very large having to list every possible version of every possible package.

Cheers,

Ganesh

Hi, why shall we use an URL of a human-readable package description at all? Wouldn't an URL of some XML file containing package info (including name, version and maybe also a pointer to a human-readable package description) be better? Or using identifiers like "hgl-1.0" as Simon Marlow suggested. Wolfgang