Dependancies...

I’m currently experimenting with hs-plugins, a library which supports dynamically loading plugins in Haskell. Or, rather, I would be if I could manage to sort out the various hassles I’m encountering in installing it.

The only problem is that hs-plugins depends on Language.Haskell.Hsx. This would be fine, if it came in the GHC distribution. Alas it doesn’t, so I’ve had to find and install it myself. This isn’t too much trouble - I have, after all, been using UNIX-like systems for at least 7 years now. The only bump in this stretch of the road is that Language.Haskell.Hsx depends on Happy.

Haskell is getting to the point where it could really do with a CPAN-style package archive, if only because introducing it now will be so much easier than later when it is actually necessary. Cabal already provides these sorts of features (dependancy chasing, etc).

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