Re: [Haskell-cafe] Policy for taking over a package on Hackage

2011-05-27 Thread Mario Blažević
On 11-05-25 08:52 AM, Johan Tibell wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com wrote: With my wl-pprint-text package, Jason Dagit suggested to me on #haskell that it would make sense to make such a pretty-printer be class-based so that the same API

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Policy for taking over a package on Hackage

2011-05-26 Thread Jason Dagit
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com wrote: On 26 May 2011 08:49, wren ng thornton w...@freegeek.org wrote: On 5/25/11 1:03 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com  wrote: Well,

[Haskell-cafe] Policy for taking over a package on Hackage

2011-05-25 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
With my wl-pprint-text package, Jason Dagit suggested to me on #haskell that it would make sense to make such a pretty-printer be class-based so that the same API could be used for String, ByteString, Text, etc. I was thinking of doing so, and in such a case it would probably make the most amount

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Policy for taking over a package on Hackage

2011-05-25 Thread Stephen Tetley
Hi Ivan Forks are good, no? The Parsec experience has suggested to me at least, that new author's capping another author's work by bumping up to a major version, causes a significant difficulties even when the original author has gone. As for wl-pprint, it was a very tidy library in its

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Policy for taking over a package on Hackage

2011-05-25 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
On 25 May 2011 22:17, Stephen Tetley stephen.tet...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ivan Forks are good, no? The Parsec experience has suggested to me at least, that new author's capping another author's work by bumping up to a major version, causes a significant difficulties even when the original

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Policy for taking over a package on Hackage

2011-05-25 Thread Simon Meier
2011/5/25 Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com: On 25 May 2011 22:17, Stephen Tetley stephen.tet...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ivan Forks are good, no? The Parsec experience has suggested to me at least, that new author's capping another author's work by bumping up to a major version,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Policy for taking over a package on Hackage

2011-05-25 Thread Johan Tibell
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com wrote: With my wl-pprint-text package, Jason Dagit suggested to me on #haskell that it would make sense to make such a pretty-printer be class-based so that the same API could be used for String, ByteString, Text,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Policy for taking over a package on Hackage

2011-05-25 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
On 25 May 2011 22:52, Johan Tibell johan.tib...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com wrote: With my wl-pprint-text package, Jason Dagit suggested to me on #haskell that it would make sense to make such a pretty-printer be

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Policy for taking over a package on Hackage

2011-05-25 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
On 25 May 2011 23:23, Otakar Smrz otakar.s...@cmu.edu wrote: I took over the maintenance of wl-pprint since Stefan suggested it himself. I needed to include OverlappingInstances, because that was required to make better use of the library (there is a difference having this flag there, which

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Policy for taking over a package on Hackage

2011-05-25 Thread KQ
On Wed, 25 May 2011 05:17:46 -0700, Stephen Tetley stephen.tet...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ivan Forks are good, no? The Parsec experience has suggested to me at least, that new author's capping another author's work by bumping up to a major version, causes a significant difficulties even when the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Policy for taking over a package on Hackage

2011-05-25 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 5:01 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com wrote: With my wl-pprint-text package, Jason Dagit suggested to me on #haskell that it would make sense to make such a pretty-printer be class-based so that the same API could be used for String, ByteString,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Policy for taking over a package on Hackage

2011-05-25 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com wrote: Well, using the Char8 version. Just because you *could* do that, it doesn't mean that you *should*. It's a bad idea to use bytestrings for manipulating text, yet the only plausible reason to have wl-pprint

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Policy for taking over a package on Hackage

2011-05-25 Thread Antoine Latter
On May 25, 2011 11:08 AM, KQ qu...@sparq.org wrote: On Wed, 25 May 2011 05:17:46 -0700, Stephen Tetley stephen.tet...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ivan Forks are good, no? The Parsec experience has suggested to me at least, that new author's capping another author's work by bumping up to a major

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Policy for taking over a package on Hackage

2011-05-25 Thread quick
Quoting Antoine Latter aslat...@gmail.com: On May 25, 2011 11:08 AM, KQ qu...@sparq.org wrote: The HackageDB could the provide this information in the description page of a package, and it could even automatically cross-reference and supplement the referred package descriptions, so that if

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Policy for taking over a package on Hackage

2011-05-25 Thread Antoine Latter
I wanted the second set because I may want to establish the link even if I'm not the maintainer of the second package. I would imagine that the second set of actions would be otherwise identical, and the link would show up on either package regardless of which set of verbs was used. Antoine On

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Policy for taking over a package on Hackage

2011-05-25 Thread wren ng thornton
On 5/25/11 1:56 PM, Antoine Latter wrote: On May 25, 2011 12:50 PM,qu...@sparq.org wrote: Quoting Antoine Latteraslat...@gmail.com: The only thing I'd add would be the additional actions ReplacedBy, ExtendedBy and RedesignedBy. I was actually thinking that this was the part that HackageDB

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Policy for taking over a package on Hackage

2011-05-25 Thread wren ng thornton
On 5/25/11 1:03 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com wrote: Well, using the Char8 version. Just because you *could* do that, it doesn't mean that you *should*. It's a bad idea to use bytestrings for manipulating text,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Policy for taking over a package on Hackage

2011-05-25 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
On 26 May 2011 08:49, wren ng thornton w...@freegeek.org wrote: On 5/25/11 1:03 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com  wrote: Well, using the Char8 version. Just because you *could* do that, it doesn't mean that you