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by dons
5292 days ago
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We have a roadmap to a truly comprehensive base set, based on peer review from nominated libraries on hackage (which hosts around 4000 libs now). Assuming eg snap or yesod servers are proposed, you might well see them in the next release. For graphics, OpenGL is already standard, with a medium term plan to add Cairo/GTK. Finally, all of hackage is a 'cabal install' away, reducing the need for a large core set. |
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This I think is the most important point. The value that the Haskell Platform has is that it includes the stuff that depends on system libraries (X11) and other packages that are more difficult than average to install. That means that once you get the Platform, everything else will probably be easy to install, and so there's no point in including it.
(This is especially true of things like web frameworks; what's popular today may not be in 5 years, and deprecation cycles are hard. Perl still includes CGI.pm, and people still use it because "it's core". Compatibility is nice, but encouraging obsolete programming techniques is not.)