Claus Reinke wrote:
- i don't want to have to remove anything explicitly, because that
would mean bypassing the haskell installation managers
- i would want to see a single haskell installation manager
for each system,
I think that's fundamentally the wrong approach. We shouldn't have to
build a "Haskell installation manager". Would you also want installation
managers for Perl, Python, Ruby, C, C++, etc. each with their own different
user interfaces and feature sets? I think not - you want a single package
manager for the whole system from which you can install/uninstall libraries
for any language.
This is something that Windows gets completely wrong. Why do I have twelve
icons in my status bar all representing little programs that are running in
the background checking for updates to their own bits of software? Why on
earth do I have a Printer Driver Update Manager? And I'd be wondering the
same thing about a "Haskell installation manager": installation and
dependencies are not something specific to Haskell.
Cheers,
Simon
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