I think Sven makes a good point: * if people use it, it should be in the platform That is one of many heuristics we hope to use to decide inclusion. The "but *I* don't use it" argument isn't sound - you would have to show that it is not used by many. -- Don dons:

FWD to libraries, where the policy discussions will take place.

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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:29:35 +0200 From: Sven Panne To: haskell-platform@community.haskell.org Subject: Re: [haskell-platform] #60: Set up Platform Committee to decide Add/Remove decisions

Just a small remark here: The Platform Committee should seriously take the main goal of the HP into consideration, i.e. providing a 1-click-installation resulting in a compiler and tools plus a nice, usable set of libraries for various platforms. Throwing out everything which might lead to trouble at compilation time is completely the wrong way. Having trouble (and solving it) is the main task of people involved in the HP! Only providing packages which are extremely trivial to install (like mtl or html) doesn't help the end user at all. Apart from the boring, mostly academic stuff end users expect shiny things like support for GUIs, graphics and sound. Take the HP and ask yourself: What applications can I program with it alone which I can show to friends to convince them about the usefulness of Haskell? Monad transformers and software transactional memory will convince only very few people, so we really need *more* packages in the HP, not less...

Cheers, S.

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