Nice work, Ben - good to see someone's going to take it on in a slightly less half-arsed way than I was :)
cheers mark On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Ben Millwood <hask...@benmachine.co.uk> wrote: > Hello cafe, > > The haskell-src-meta package was originally written by Matt Morrow, to > provide a translation from the syntax tree parsed from String by the > haskell-src-exts package to Template Haskell's representation of > Haskell source code, making possible a variety of interesting > quasiquoters and metaprogramming. > > However, while the package was still fairly embryonic and incomplete, > Matt disappeared from the haskell community, and his work no longer > compiles with the latest versions of template haskell and GHC. Many > people still had use for it, so there was some discussion about its > future in a haskell-cafe thread [1] resulting in a fork [2]. After I > and at least one other person duplicated the work of updating > haskell-src-meta, ignorant of the fork, it was decided that > maintaining forks was a less-than-ideal solution, so I volunteered to > take up maintainership of a package that had by now been untouched for > some ten months. > > Hence, haskell-src-meta-0.1.0, from a new maintainer (hello!). The > functionality changes in this release are minimal, but nonzero: its > primary purpose is to let the original work be used with updated TH. > However, there have been some changes and additions since 0.0.6: > > * The previously somewhat lengthy Language.Haskell.TH.Instances.Lift > is now mostly generated with template haskell using the th-lift > package. > * Contexts, kinds, bang patterns, unboxed word literals, newly > supported in template-haskell-2.4.0.0, are used where necessary. > * Use of haskell-src-exts is brought in line with newer versions. > * Thanks to a patch by Jonas Duregard, a new ToDecs class has been > added to handle cases where more than one Dec must be returned. > > I don't have any big plans for future releases: there is a lot that > could do with tidying up, and some small aspects of the syntax > conversion that aren't covered, but I mostly just intend to ensure it > keeps building and that anyone with patches to contribute has a prompt > response. > > How You Can Help: the easiest way is to tell me that I've put the > version constraints too tightly on some dependency or other -- I have > erred on the conservative side. Any other comments on the package in > general are appreciated too, since this is the first time I've ever > uploaded anything to Hackage. There is a github repository at > http://github.com/benmachine/haskell-src-meta if you want to submit > patches. > > Yours sincerely, > Ben Millwood > > [1] http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2010-July/080390.html > [2] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/haskell-src-meta-mwotton > ______________________________________________ -- A UNIX signature isn't a return address, it's the ASCII equivalent of a black velvet clown painting. It's a rectangle of carets surrounding a quote from a literary giant of weeniedom like Heinlein or Dr. Who. -- Chris Maeda _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
