Re: Proposal: New procedures for handling packages in a GHC tree

On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 08:55:40PM +0000, Geoffrey Mainland wrote:
> 
> It looks like the proposal will leave us with the pain of fingerprints
> and add the additional pain of git submodules. I am very much in favor
> of just using submodules for everything.

FWIW, the rationale for not using git submodules for libraries that we
maintain was that we make more changes, and more significant changes, to
those libraries (changes to libraries other people maintain tend to be
pretty mechanical, e.g. bumping deps as necessary or switching to newer
APIs).

Therefore, if we switched all libraries then we'd be more likely to get
bitten by the drawbacks, and if we lost changes due to them then we'd
have lost more substantial work.

I also don't feel strongly about it, though.


Thanks
Ian