Re: Proposal process status

2016-07-21 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I'm replying to this to clarify that I object to GitHub in order to have a clear conscience, not because I think GitHub is a "bad tool". Attempting to shoot down my arguments against GitHub with arguments for convenience or it being a "a good tool",

Re: Proposal process status

2016-07-20 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 20/07/16 23:41, Jack Hill wrote: > Would the barrier to entry to a non-GitHub system be reduced by > using GitHub for user authentication/accounts For what it's worth, GitLab supports this[0]. You can also use Twitter, or whatever. [0]

Re: Proposal process status

2016-07-20 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 20/07/16 19:04, Ben Gamari wrote: > I know, it's rather frustrating. I also have fairly strong feelings > about open-source purity, but in this case I just don't see any > way to improve the current situation under this constraint. I don't think

Re: Proposal process status

2016-07-20 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 20/07/16 19:00, Richard Eisenberg wrote: > While I indeed sympathize with your desire to avoid proprietary, > closed software, I'd like to point out that avoiding GitHub > because it's closed has a real cost I don't value those points over my

Re: Proposal process status

2016-07-20 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 20/07/16 11:36, Ben Gamari wrote: > * What would you like to see changed in the proposed process, if > anything? No GitHub. In order to fully utilise GitHub, one needs to run proprietary programs. Additionally, GitHub is proprietary software

Re: idea: tool to suggest adding imports

2016-03-20 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 19/03/16 20:08, Evan Laforge wrote: > The catch is that it uses qualified imports, which makes > everything easy. If you're still interested, it's fix-imports on > hackage. There are lots of others too, but I haven't tried them. Ah. I generally

Re: idea: tool to suggest adding imports

2016-03-19 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 18/03/16 23:51, Evan Laforge wrote: > I did this about 5 or 6 years ago for vim, and I'm so used to it I > wouldn't want to live without it. Is your plug-in free software? Do you have a link to it? It sounds very useful to us vim users. - --

Re: [Haskell-beginners] DOOM rewritten in the Haskell programming language.

2015-12-07 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 David, I think it would be more valuable to make a DOOM-like game than to remake DOOM. Especially if you are going to aim for funding. The free software community has had this problem for years, where we point to remakes of old games as evidence to

Re: simultaneous ghc versions

2015-08-03 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 31/07/15 20:10, Evan Laforge wrote: Come to think of it, shouldn't ghc include this, instead of everyone creating their own shell scripts by hand? I don't think so. This is usually done in the userland -- at least in GNU+Linux distributions.

Re: Hiding module *exports*

2014-10-27 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I like symmetry. +1 from me. - -- Alexander alexan...@plaimi.net https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/

Re: Hiding import behaviour

2014-10-17 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 17/10/14 00:40, Austin Seipp wrote: Maybe there are some cases today where something like this could happen, but this seems awfully, awfully implicit and hard-to-follow as a language feature. In general I think a program that has imports