On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 01:19:24PM +0300, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
which is not required to compile ghc but nevertheless widely used and should be easily available, say, for windows users
You seem to be implying that "not included with $implementation" means "not easily available". This means that any library not included in this core libs set is not easily available, which is not a good position for us to be in! It means library writers are unhappy that no-one uses their libraries, users are unhappy that it is hard to get libraries they need and increases the pressure on us to put more libraries into core libs. For GHC at least, the set of libraries included isn't going to change before 6.8, so we have until then to bring Hackage up to speed so that this is not true. So, I would like to through down the gauntlet to the community to make this happen! We have ambitions to make large steps in this direction at Hac 07 http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Hac_2007 (but that shouldn't stop people who can't be there from working on it too, or people working on it before then!). Thanks Ian