Louis Wasserman wrote:
Thomas Schilling wrote:
Nevertheless, the libraries bundled with GHC are those libraries that GHC itself needs and which therefore cannot be upgraded independently. The real standard libraries are the Haskell Platform and if your package is part of the platform, then your package *is* in status equivalent to things like java.util.*.
Okay, let me ask the following question:
Would anybody besides me be heartbroken if priority queues *weren't* put into containers, but were instead put into the Platform?
So long as there's a pqueue implementation in the Platform, I wouldn't be heartbroken. I can see how it'd be nice to put it in containers (e.g., people just need to depend on containers in their .cabal files) but now that the Platform is here I don't see any big reasons to want to make the packages in it any bigger when a separate package would do the same job just as well. By putting the pqueue implementation into containers that means everyone using containers will have a larger library to link against (unless GHC is smarter than I suspect), regardless of whether they use pqueues. Unless I'm wrong about how smart GHC is, that implies that the containers package should[1] even be broken up to facilitate smaller binaries. [1] Ignoring backwards compatibility issues. -- Live well, ~wren