On 03 December 2004 17:10, Keean Schupke wrote:
I find that even on package managed systems I use CPAN to install perl modules... I would have thought a nice central repository on haskell.org (with mirrors of course) where users can contibute their packages, that would be built into a Haskell package tool would be useful even for systems where there is package management.
I find that debian/gentoo etc do not have all the packages available for say perl, and it is nice to have a consistant interface on any platform...
I'm arguing for a consistent interface for all packages (not just Haskell) on any given platform, whereas you're arguing for a consistent interface for Haskell packages across platforms. There are advantages to both approaches of course, so ideally we'd have both. That means correctly managing interactions between the Haskell package manager (whatever that is) and the native package manager, such that you can uninstall packages in the native way, for example. We all agree what would be useful. Now it's time to write some code! Cheers, Simon