On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:54 PM, John MacFarlane<j...@berkeley.edu> wrote: [..] > In this connection, I want to make a general point about the HP: > In a way, it doesn't matter so much which additional pure Haskell > libraries it includes, because once you have cabal install, you can get > anything easily. For bindings to C libraries, it's another story.
AFAIU the plan is to separate GHC and its "platform packages", so in the future it might not be that easy to get to the point where you _can_ run 'cabal install'. > pcre-light is a good example. If I want to tell someone how to install > pandoc with syntax highlighting, I can't just say, "Get the HP and > then cabal install pandoc -fhighlighting". I have to say: "First, > install the pcre library, if it's not already on your system..." -- and > you lose a lot of users at this step. This is a good point, but to some extent this brings us back to a discussion that's specific to systems with broken or non-existing package managers. Wouldn't it be better to deal with _that_ outside of HP? /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus@therning.org Jabber: magnus@therning.org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe