Re: Haskell Platform Proposal: HLint

On 11 November 2010 09:23, Niklas Broberg wrote:

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Ian Lynagh wrote:

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On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 11:41:18PM -0500, Sterling Clover wrote:

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I would like to propose haskell-src-exts for inclusion into the platform [...] At a (near) future point, we could then discuss removing haskell-src from the platform.

(Speaking as someone entirely unfamiliar with both packages, so this may be a crazy idea), I wonder if it might be better rename haskell-src-exts to haskell-src and for this to just be a major version bump. After all, nowadays more and more "extensions" are going to be part of the language, and who would actually use haskell-src once haskell-src-exts is part of the platform?

I'm in favor.

I would also advocate this approach. I would recommend making a normal HP proposal, but include in it that the plan is to replace the existing haskell-src HP package, and to keep the name haskell-src. See the recent mtl-2 proposal for example, which entirely replaces the implementation, but keeps the same package name. Duncan