"Simon Marlow"
I imagined putting the standard libraries in a single source repository. By the "standard libraries", I mean loosely speaking those libraries which are going to be distributed with most compilers (i.e. like the current hslibs setup). The libraries could have a standalone build system, but at least for GHC this would mean duplicating most of the fptools build system in the libraries tree (because we need to support ways, GHCi .o files, DLLs, split object files etc. etc.), but NHC and Hugs require a much more minimal build system.
Technically, I think, it might be cleaner to have build system for the libraries that works with all compilers, rather than different build systems for different compilers.
The problem with this is, the Hugs & NHC guys don't want the GHC build system, and I don't want to rewrite our build system to do the same stuff it already does (and likely the Hugs & NHC guys wouldn't like the results anyway :-). We are doomed to multiple build systems I'm afraid.
I am just worrying that this will put off potential library authors or at least lessen their motivation to make the library portable. Cheers, Manuel