Re: Thinking about what's missing in our library coverage

On 04/08/2009 12:07, Gwern Branwen wrote:

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Simon Marlow wrote:

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Add

* binary * getopt * gtk2hs

A definite yes to binary and getopt; but gtk2hs? I don't trust its longevity or maintenance, and as other people have pointed out, it will make the platform harder to support. As well, we risk holding back the platform - hasn't gtk2hs lagged GHC releases in the past? (I seem to remember some of the lags being quite lengthy.)

Adding gtk2hs would be a bold step, no doubt about it. By proposing it I'm hoping to force the issues to the surface: is gtk2hs the GUI lib we want to recommend, or standardise on? If it is, and it has maintenance issues, then those need to be addressed. As far as I'm aware, gtk2hs is the only plausible option for serious GUI development in Haskell at the moment. By bringing gtk2hs into the platform, we would be giving the gtk2hs maintainers a helpful boost; they'd get more testing for one thing.

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Also

* keep an eye on text. We certainly want it, but it's a young package and there's no text I/O yet. * decide which regex package(s) we want * remove html? (we have xhtml) * replace haskell-src with haskell-src-exts * remove packedstring

Absolutely. I thought we had already done this - didn't TH's unnecessary use of packedstring get removed a while ago?

Not in the version of TH shipping with GHC 6.10.x, but it will be gone in GHC 6.12. Cheers, Simon