Shae Matijs Erisson owns the >haskell-libs< project at sourceforge.net, and we figured this would be a good platform for the effort.
I just wanted to point out that there's some overlap between what you're doing in the haskell-libs project, and what's going on here on the libraries list. It's best not to duplicate effort if we can avoid it.
The idea is to set-up a CVS repository, which contains the following directories:
- hslibs
Here do the actual source codes live, using a directory layout complying to the hierarchical library structure, for example:
- Text - Data - Foobar
The contents is by-approval-only:
We have a name registry for the hierarchy, and an (albeit informal) approval policy, here: http://www.haskell.org/~simonmar/libraries/libraries.html I don't quite understand the purpose of the hslibs libraries: are you providing a replacement set of libraries, or a complementary set? I believe it's important that there be one place which lists (a) which names in the hierarchy correspond to existing libraries, and (b) where to get an implementation of those libraries.
These libraries serve as a quasi-extension of the libraries shipped with ghc/hugs/nhc98. Ideally, everybody would be able to use them by just checking out this directory and adding it to the compiler's search path.
Just adding to the search path in GHC is unlikely to work - you really want to hook into the package system, and you'll need a build system of some kind. Cheers, Simon