Samuel Bronson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm sure most of us have used CVS and/or SVN with existing projects > (or before darcs, or for things which need to run everywhere and not > just where GHC runs), and some of us probably don't like darcs, but > that doesn't mean others of us don't feel the need for darcs hosting.
I can attest to this. I've been hosting various darcs repos and mirros for some people on #haskell. I had a GForge test installation on ScannedInAvian.org years ago. I hacked in darcs support by slightly modifying the ssh key submission to allow submission of GPG keys. It's easy to get an ugly but working solution. Thesis: The Haskell community needs a HaskellForge. Point: Users can't find libraries and their details. Counterpoint: Hackage will cover that for smaller projects. Supporting evidence: I recently asked someone why they chose OCaml over Haskell. They said it's because OCaml has a wider range of libraries, especially OpenGL and SDL bindings. I know that Haskell has both of those, but it would appear that he couldn't find them. Here's a regular scavenger hunt you can see in the #haskell logs. What's the difference between HOpenGL and OpenGL? Where are the docs? Which one is included with the ghc6 debs? I'm not picking on HOpenGL specifically, I can think of lots of projects where details are hard to find (my code too!). Some others that come to mind are SOEGraphics and Yampa / Yampa Arcade. Coming at it from the other direction, can you figure what projects are on haskell.org? How many project webpages can you find without Google? I think the biggest lack is a searchable index of packages and details. A HaskellForge would have a searchable index of projects, but so will Hackage. But, hackage and cabal are more like deb/rpm than sourceforge. Hackage will never cover mailing lists, forums, or bug/feature trackers. So, I guess it depends on what you think the Haskell community needs. -- It seems I've been living two lives. One life is a self-employed web developer In the other life, I'm shapr, functional programmer. | www.ScannedInAvian.com One of these lives has futures (and subcontinuations!)| --Shae Matijs Erisson _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
