On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones
wrote:
> Friends
>
> Thanks to those who responded to the message below, about improving the
> process for developing the core Haskell libraries.
> http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Library_submissions/NewDraft
>
> Feedback has been broa
Friends
Thanks to those who responded to the message below, about improving the process
for developing the core Haskell libraries.
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Library_submissions/NewDraft
Feedback has been broadly positive, with constructive suggestions that we've
incorporated
Thank you! I've added you as such.
Simon
| -Original Message-
| From: David Terei [mailto:davidte...@gmail.com]
| Sent: 21 May 2011 00:42
| To: Simon Peyton-Jones; cvs-ghc@haskell.org; Haskell Libraries
| Subject: Re: New libraries process
|
| I'd be happy to maintain the Pret
I'd be happy to maintain the Pretty library.
Cheers,
David
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Hi Simon,
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Simon Peyton-Jones
wrote:
> But I understand you as saying "fine, let's try it and see".
Lets try and see.
> There's a balance isn't there? Changing the API of a widely used library
> imposes costs on lots of other people, and it's reasonable to take
| I have re-read the entire document and I'm willing to try it out in
| its current form.
Great
| I'd like to use the remainder of this email to note
| my remaining reservations, to clarify my thinking on these issues if
| nothing else.
I think everyone is likely to be open to improvements, and
Hi Simon,
I have re-read the entire document and I'm willing to try it out in
its current form. I'd like to use the remainder of this email to note
my remaining reservations, to clarify my thinking on these issues if
nothing else.
Motivation and momentum
==
Keeping oneself mo
On 19/05/2011 16:21, Daniel Fischer wrote:
"At the very least ensure the code runs in Hugs and GHC, and on Windows and
Linux."
Is Hugs still alive?
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| I'd like to set some expectations here. My current belief is that the
| process that's used to managed e.g. bytestring, text, and network is
| fine. That is the default the-maintainer-knows-what-he's-doing open
| source approach
Indeed. That's what we intended by the "trust the maintainer"
| I don't have access to a Windows box, so *I* cannot ensure the code runs on
| Windows.
| And if the code involved doesn't make use of any OS-specific functions or
| libraries, like purely numerical code in base, if it worked on one OS but
| not on another, something lying deeper would be bro
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Simon Peyton-Jones
wrote:
> No, we intended that the maintainer is never *required* to accept a change.
> To quote "the community offers opinions; the maintainer decides". If you
> think that point should be made even more strongly, can you go ahead and edit?
[Changing subject line; sorry for the odd initial one!]
| "widespread support" is a bit of a wishy-washy phrase. If 7 people
| want it, is that widespread support?
| ...should be added. However, there's a strong selection bias here and
| ...This is one of the places where having a real maintainer
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