Re: Haskell Platform Proposal: HLint

On 4 November 2010 19:38, Max Bolingbroke wrote:

On 4 November 2010 08:11, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:

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On 4 November 2010 19:04, John Smith wrote:

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As a beginner, I'm finding HLInt (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hlint) extremely useful for improving my code. Would it be worthwhile including this in HP?

That would require haskell-src-exts, uniplate, etc. to go into the platform as well; are _they_ ready and worth including?

HLint is an executable, so you could just statically link it to its dependencies and not install them as developer-accessible libraries. This particular reason should not be a barrier to including HLint in the platform.

Except the Platform is based on the sources, etc. ... Not everyone gets the platform as a pre-built Windows installer you know ;-) Also, don't forget the GHC now supports dynamic linking. -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com