[switching to libraries] On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 12:02:30PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:

I don't think it's necessary to specify dependencies with module granularity. This just increases the number of possible error cases, without adding functionality. If you want to specify which module imports require each package dependency, then do it with a comment. The tools can tell you if any dependencies are redundant.

Suppose that:

- Package dependencies in Build-Depends could be specified using URLs.

That would also be redundant. Better to keep using package names in dependencies, and have a catalogue mapping package names to URLs, either in a local file or a remote database (i.e. Hackage).

- Cabal could download, build, and install dependencies without any user intervention.

And this is also on the way, I hear.