On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 05:42:00PM +0300, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
* base libs are *guaranteed* to be shipped with any haskell compiler (compliant with this proposal). [...] these libs should include rich set of functionality. criteria of inclusion library in this set are: widely used, small and portable.
Portability: these libs should work on windows and major unix branches, on ghc/hugs/nhc and other proposal-compliant compilers, otherwise we can't guarantee availability everywhere. [...] haskell98, readline, unix/Win32, QuickCheck, fgl, haskell-src, html, mtl, network, parsec, time, xhtml, ByteString, regex-*, Edison, Filepath, MissingH, NewBinary, arrows, HUnit, QuickCheck, monads
Your portability criterion would rule out fgl, mtl, regex-*, Edison, NewBinary, arrows and monads.