Sven Panne wrote: [..]
* IMHO, GNOME is a not a good example, although it is cited here over and over again. GNOME is mainly supposed to be used by *end users*, while the Haskell platform is supposed to be used by *programmers*. Both target groups have very different needs. As a desktop user I probably don't care much about some feature additions, as long as my good old working environment stays the same. As a programmer I'd like to get bug fixes very quickly, get early indications of the direction where a library evolving, try out new cool features, etc. There is always a tension between stability and new features, but given *our* target group, let's not focus on the wrong thing too heavily.
GHC and the haskell platform is open source, that means that users are the future developers, please don't target _existing_ developers only! Ease of use for users should not be thrown away lightly, just look at the steps a user has to go through to install applications written in Ruby. Also, don't forget that in order to make haskell easy to access, and promote applications written in haskell it must be easy to provide packages for different distros/OSs (Linux, BSD, Mac, Win). /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe