Most popular libraries not in the HP

[Don Stewart]

briand:
> On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:56:23 +0200
> Axel Simon <Axel.Simon at in.tum.de> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > As far as I can see, there is a gradual overhead of C libraries  
> > involved here. The Platform could ship the following subsets of
> > Gtk2Hs:
> > 
> > cairo
> > cairo+glib+pango
> > cairo+glib+pango+gio
> > cairo+glib+pango+gio+gtk
> > 
> > It's a question of how big the tar ball is and how much work it is
> > to bundle the C libraries with the Platform.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> 
> That's why I voted for including just cairo.
> 
> it's low overhead, high quality and gives your haskell install access to
> cross-platform graphics capability.
> _______________________________________________

We wouldn't bundle the C source (as we don't e.g. for GL or Regex.c currently)