When I got back to work on putting an HGL release together, I realized that I'd have to do a fresh release of GreenCard first since it has a bunch of updates to work with hierarchial names, ffi, etc. The GreenCard distrib contains what ought to be the master copy of the StdDIS.{gc,hs} so I figure it ought to be made a proper library package, put in the hierarchial library namespace, etc. Obvious places to put it in the library hierarchy are: Foreign.GreenCard.StdDIS.hs GreenCard.StdDIS.hs Apps.GreenCard.StdDIS.hs <SomeOtherPrefix>.GreenCard.StdDIS.hs A variant on this is to recognize that this is the only file in the library and drop the trailing /StdDIS: Foreign.GreenCard.hs GreenCard.hs Apps.GreenCard.hs <SomeOtherPrefix>.GreenCard.hs Any opinions? (btw it seems like we might see more apps with support libraries -especially if the app generates Haskell code- so this may be an instance of a more general problem.) [btw GreenCard raises an additional issue for any library building/ packaging infrastructure. If you want to use GreenCard, you need StdDIS.gc and (the makefile which invokes) GreenCard needs to know where to find it. So we need a standard place for it to live or a way to locate it once installed.] -- Alastair Alastair Reid mentioned:
[...] Graphics.X11.StdDIS -- should be shared by all GC'd files [...] [StdDIS is just a copy of the file included in GreenCard distributions and would go away if we were to do the sensible thing and have a single StdDIS somewhere in the libraries tree.]
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 2:48 pm, Simon Marlow wrote:
For StdDIS, if it is shared by all greencard-generated source, then it probably should be something like Greencard.StdDIS and kept in a separate greencard package. For now, putting it in Graphics.X11.StdDIS (and not advertising its existence) should be fine.