Packages

This page indexes the various package-related material on this wiki.

Design of the Package System

• Commentary/Packages

GHC's implementation of the package system:

• Commentary/Compiler/Packages

Discussion and proposals for managing the module namespace using packages. None of the following proposals have been implemented at this time (Oct 2007):

• Commentary/Packages/GhcPackagesProposal (Simon Peyton Jones and others, July 2006)
• Commentary/Packages/PackageNamespacesProposal (Malcolm Wallace, July 2006)
• Commentary/Packages/PackageImportsProposal (Simon Peyton Jones, October 2006)
• Commentary/Packages/PackageMountingProposal (Frederik Eaton, October 2006)

Discussion and proposals for how to reorganise the existing packages:

• Commentary/Packages/PackageReorg
• Commentary/Packages/PackageReorg/Rationale

Discussion about how best to manage breakage caused by changes to packages:

• Commentary/Packages/PackageCompatibilityProposal