wasn't there an effort to have a mini private variant of attoparsec for the parser combinator deps?
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Johan Tibell <johan.tib...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Duncan Coutts < > duncan.cou...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> Actually, this is not quite right. Since ghc would still ship Cabal (but >> not depend on it), it would also ship its dependencies including parsec, >> mtl and transformers. So they would need to be up to date and installed, >> it's just that ghc itself would not depend on them. >> >> If that's really inconvenient, it's plausible to have a minimal set >> which is just the things ghc depends on, so long as what gets shipped to >> users is the useful set, including Cabal. > > > I don't quite like how GHC's dependencies leak out to the rest of the > world. It makes it possible for us to decide what version we want to ship > in the platform of those libraries. I guess we don't have a good technical > solution to this problem though. > > > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > >
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