Re: new Library Infrastructure spec.

If your Bob the Builder is supposed to be as competent as my Peter the Packager, then you are clearly missing some roles! There are e.g. Win32 installers HDirect and HaskellScript. Who produced them and who is intended to use them? I run GHC on my Windows box and can't easily/reliably get C code to compile and produce DLLs (both because my C is *very* rusty and because I don't have an up-to-date version of all the cygwin mingwin blah blah packages). Yet, I do occasionally download and install Haskell libraries? Am I Bob, Peter, Sam, Joe, or perhaps someone new? -Alex- _________________________________________________________________ S. Alexander Jacobson mailto:me@alexjacobson.com tel:917-770-6565 http://alexjacobson.com On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Malcolm Wallace wrote:

"S. Alexander Jacobson" writes:

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Bob wants to install libraries, but has only an editor and a haskell compiler/interpreter installed on his machine. Although we can't expect him to build packages created by Marcus (which require a C compiler), there is no reason he shouldn't be able to install packages created by Angela or Peter Packager (new persona!).

It seems to me that Bob the Builder does not deserve the name if he doesn't have the facilities to build a random package from source! If Bob is really that naive then his name is Joe User, who only wants to use the package, not build it.

Your Peter Packager seems to have exactly the attributes we intended Bob the Builder to have. So you have conflated Joe and Bob into a single persona, necessitating the introduction of Peter, but in our minds Bob and Peter are the same persona, quite separate from Joe.

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