Hi Simon et al., On Aug 4, 2009, at 13:57, 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.
Bringing Gtk2Hs into the platform is certainly desirable. During the last one or two years, the amount of users has grown steadily which is nice. However, Pete and my time is rather limited and is often being used up by installation issues and questions that could be answered with better documentation. Thus, it would be desirable to bring Gtk2Hs into the platform because it would force us to simplify installation and documentation. For the former part, I wonder if cabalization is important for Gtk2Hs. A cabalized version of Gtk2Hs would allow people to use Cairo and Pango to create PDF documents without the need to install the GUI parts of the library. On the contrary, if Gtk2Hs is shipped with the platform, then all libraries are available anyway and cabalization might not be as important. My question: how important is cabalization for a package that wants to be part of the platform? Axel.