Haskell platform?

[Ganesh Sittampalam]

On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Magnus Therning wrote:

>> The definitive list is currently here:
>> http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/Library/VersionMatrix#PlatformPackages
>> in the column for 2009.0.0
>>
>> We'll move that list to a page on it's own along with some guidance for 
>> distros.
>
> The most noticeable thing is the old versions for regex-*.  Is there
> already a plan for the next release, one that catches up with what's on
> Hackage?

parsec in the platform is also an "old" version - 2.1.0.1 - and is likely 
to remain that way, as parsec 3 is generally considered to be a bad idea 
(slower and perhaps buggier). I think Debian will have to downgrade this 
or have a separate parsec2 package to support the platform.

Ganesh