On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Ben Millwood <hask...@benmachine.co.uk>wrote:
> Hi everyone, > > Do we have a general notion of what we consider best practices for > contributed code to Cabal? Perhaps we should formalise something? > > One of the reasons I wanted to get the wiki back online was in the hope > that it had some pointers, but it doesn't seem to. (I've started migrating > stuff anyway: have a look at https://github.com/haskell/** > cabal/wiki/Migration-from-trac<https://github.com/haskell/cabal/wiki/Migration-from-trac>for > status). > > For example, many of the Cabal modules have explicit, and therefore quite > long, import lists, with no clear organisation, and hence when adding new > imports I have to read the entire list to make sure they are not already > there, and then wonder where makes sense to insert them. Usually I just > make something up with no pattern to it, and hence perpetuate the problem. > My experience is that without an automated tool or editor command to organize the headers humans are unlikely to do it. A quick google search didn't turn up any vim or emacs commands for this relating to haskell. Jason
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