"Simon Marlow" writes:

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I'd like to make a request that the HUnit testing framework be converted to a 'package' in the hierarchical libraries, to make for easier installation and use. If it could be added to the fptools repository, and so be distributed with new releases of ghc, Hugs, and nhc98, so much the better, but a separate distribution would be fine as well. The current distribution appears to be two years old, so I'm guessing it is pretty stable. I know it has several keen users, and making it more readily accessible would be a good goal.

Sure, hoick it on over.

We'll ship it with GHC and build it by default if it has an active maintainer with CVS access.

If Malcolm isn't interested in maintaining it, perhaps I will. It's something I use often, and I was thinking of packaging it for Debian anyway. This will save me the trouble.

When the library infrastructure project comes to fruition, I'd like to see us split some of these packages off into separate shippable entities, but for the time being bundling with compilers is fine.

Yes!

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[ For folks on the libraries list, I would also like to recommend that the existing 'QuickCheck' package move from its current location in 'Debug.QuickCheck' to 'Test.QuickCheck', which is more descriptive of its actual use. ]

No objections here. Leave Debug.QuickCheck as an indirection for a while, marked deprecated.

FWIW I second the suggestion that it go into the Test hierarchy. But maybe this would be a good time to give them more descriptive names? It's a little tricky, though, since they both have good "brands". I don't have any particularly good ideas. I don't like the names because they're both for unit testing, and they both are quick :) Maybe in the long-term we should try to combine them? peace, isaac