| A draft "meta package" for the platform is here, | | http://code.haskell.org/haskell-platform/haskell-platform.cabal | | This would allow us to: | | cabal install haskell-platform | | and use cabal to track dependencies. | | The question is on what to include. I'd say, start with the current | extra libs, and throw in the 5 most popular others (say, Data.Binary, | an XML library, a JSON library, and some other parsers). | | From this, we can announce a draft, and work on scaling up the automated | quality assurance aspects.
Thanks! This is all great stuff. What I think would be useful would be to let other people know about it. Notably, publish at http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_Platform a) the named individuals who constitute the HP committee; presumably they both decide what is in and what is out, and commit to delivering the HP. b) timescale c) process: how can people submit packages? (Or perhaps for now the process is: the committee just decides, but in 2009 will emit an open call. Or whatever.) Just publicising that there is an activity, who's involved, how to join in etc will be v good. Simon _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc
