Thinking about what's missing in our library coverage

[Ian Lynagh]

On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 02:21:11PM +0200, Axel Simon wrote:
>
> My question: how important is cabalization for a package that wants to be 
> part of the platform?

I think it's important. It means that:

* It can be built and installed in a regular way when creating the
  binary platform installers, without needing special case code

* It can be built and installed in a regular way in Linux distros etc,
  so it does not place an extra burden on distro maintainers trying to
  support the platform

* The platform can be installed with just cabal-install (although you
  will also need to install the C libraries etc)

* People who want to test newer versions that are intended to come with
  a future platform release can easily do so


Thanks
Ian