On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 05:26:05PM +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote: > Compare me changing my tagsoup library, to me changing my filepath > library which comes bundled with GHC. I can do anything I want to the > tagsoup library, but I need to wait at least 2 weeks and get general > consensus before changing filepath.
okay, but this fails in some cases. i wrote a package to obtain financial quotes. yahoo changed the webservice url on me. i rolled out a change within a day. in your model, people suffer a broken service for two weeks. clearly there is a time and a place for code review. there is also a time and a place for rapid response. > Also some libraries on hackage are "0.1" etc - even the author doesn't > particularly think they are stable! this is a sound practice and i applaud the authors for safely and soundly warning potential users of code immaturity. when my code has been in use for a year or so with no error reports, then i will say that it is "stable" and give it a 1.0 designation. until then, it is indeed in a testing mode. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
