Haskell platform proposal: the async package

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 13 June 2012 23:35, Roman Cheplyaka <roma at ro-che.info> wrote:
> * Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com> [2012-06-13 23:14:18+1000]
>> On 13 June 2012 23:12, Roman Cheplyaka <roma at ro-che.info> wrote:
>> > * Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com> [2012-06-13 23:02:18+1000]
>> >> Is it possible to add something there about _why_ this package should
>> >> be in the Platform rather than being a recommended package for people
>> >> to cabal-install if they need something like it?
>> >
>> > Is there such a justification for any platform package?
>>
>> network, OpenGL, etc. can apparently be difficult to install on
>> Windows due to dependence upon C libraries, so it helps to have an
>> all-in-one installer for them.
>
> Point taken. However, I don't think that the main goal of the platform
> is to provide a Windows installer for hard-to-install libraries.

Well, it's one of the major ones.

I guess my point was more "why should this library go in and not any
other random library?".

>
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