[Debian-haskell] haxml, hunit and quickcheck

[Isaac Jones]

Looks like this didn't go out yesterday for some reason.  Let's try again!

peace,

  isaac

On 6/6/05, Isaac Jones <isaac.jones at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > The version of HaXml in Hugs is 1.12.1 and my HaXml packages (in
> > > development) are version 1.13. There are some things changed, see
> > > attached diff from the hugs version <-> haxml 1.13
> >
> > Even if they are/were currently functionally identical, it's possible
> > they'll get skewed over time. Removing it (from nhc98 at least) is
> > simple, incidentally.
> >
> > Isaac, do you have an opinion?
> 
> Sorry I'm pretty late on this...
> 
> I feel like we should leave them in the implementations, and also
> allow them to be packaged separately...
> 
> Cabal, for one, is most probably going to be released more often than
> GHC.  I can imagine HUnit and QC may be similar.  The packages could
> be responsible for hiding the ones shipped with the compilers, I
> suppose.
> 
> Or we could just remove them from the compilers themselves and allow
> them to be provided by separate packages.  One thing I don't want to
> do is to leave them in the compilers and remove the separate packages
> from Debian since I want to be able to provide Cabal updates
> separately from GHC updates.
>