[Fedora-haskell-list] Package guideline feedback

[Yaakov Nemoy]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 4:29 AM, Jens Petersen <petersen at redhat.com> wrote:
>  >> -devel sub-package
>  >>
>  >> Do we need them?
>  >
>  > No.
>
>  Agree, probably not - at least non to date.  Though I was tinkering a
>  little recently with the idea of put .a files into -devel and .o files
>  into the library packages, but I am not sure yet if it makes full sense
>  or would be useful.  Perhaps we should ship .o files anyway rather than
>  generating them at install time.

The analogy between the two is slim, but the Python spec does things
the other way around, where the .o files are not generated until
install time.  This has to do with the nature of source code in
python.  Which ever method we utilize, we have precedent for both.  I
would like to encourage the notion though that Haskell is more like
Python than in C, so we can interest a variety of high level
programmers.