On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 21:23 +0000, Sittampalam, Ganesh wrote:
But the ultimate objective is for all of extralibs to go away in favor of the Haskell Platform, isn't it? That will assuredly be disruptive,
At that point the recommended installation route will be of the Platform, not of "just GHC". The first Platform release will be precisely extralibs + cabal-install + deps, so there won't be any disruption assuming that people follow that recommendation.
Right. Initially the platform will not add disruption. In the future, if the consensus is for breaking changes in library organisation then the platform provides the mechanism to manage that disruption in a way that is less painful (ie by coordinating the changes). That doesn't mean it's ok to make whatever changes you like all the time, but it should help minimise the pain with any changes we deem necessary. Duncan