[Haskell-cafe] Re: Handling absent maintainers

2010-08-18 Thread Ben Millwood
2010/8/17 Geoffrey Mainland mainl...@eecs.harvard.edu: On 08/17/2010 12:28, Ben Millwood wrote: 2010/8/17 Jonas Almström Duregård jonas.dureg...@gmail.com: Hi, Has there been any progress with this package? Like you I have also tried to contact Matt and like you I have ended up making my own

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Handling absent maintainers

2010-08-18 Thread Jonas Almström Duregård
I had been in contact with the maintainer of the package who has prepared a version 0.5 and was waiting for them to upload it so that I could use it as a dependency, but I haven't heard from them in a week or so. I'll try emailing them again, and as soon as 0.5 is on hackage I will go ahead

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Handling absent maintainers

2010-08-18 Thread Antoine Latter
It's a bad call to put any version restriction on the template haskell package in your package description - the cabal solver will still go for the latest version of your package and then try to install the listed version of template haskell from Hackage, which leads to confusing errors. Even if

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Handling absent maintainers

2010-08-18 Thread Geoffrey Mainland
On 08/18/2010 02:25, Ben Millwood wrote: 2010/8/17 Geoffrey Mainland mainl...@eecs.harvard.edu: On 08/17/2010 12:28, Ben Millwood wrote: 2010/8/17 Jonas Almström Duregård jonas.dureg...@gmail.com: Hi, Has there been any progress with this package? Like you I have also tried to contact Matt

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Handling absent maintainers

2010-08-17 Thread Jonas Almström Duregård
Hi, Has there been any progress with this package? Like you I have also tried to contact Matt and like you I have ended up making my own version of src-meta :). When someone assumes maintainership of this package I would like to discuss integrating some additions I made to the Translation module.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Handling absent maintainers

2010-08-17 Thread Ben Millwood
2010/8/17 Jonas Almström Duregård jonas.dureg...@gmail.com: Hi, Has there been any progress with this package? Like you I have also tried to contact Matt and like you I have ended up making my own version of src-meta :). When someone assumes maintainership of this package I would like to

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Handling absent maintainers

2010-08-17 Thread Geoffrey Mainland
On 08/17/2010 12:28, Ben Millwood wrote: 2010/8/17 Jonas Almström Duregård jonas.dureg...@gmail.com: Hi, Has there been any progress with this package? Like you I have also tried to contact Matt and like you I have ended up making my own version of src-meta :). When someone assumes

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Handling absent maintainers

2010-08-05 Thread Ben Millwood
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 5:07 AM, Erik de Castro Lopo mle...@mega-nerd.com wrote: The permissiveness of hackage uploads suggests that Hackage needs to start using something like GPG signing and GPG webs of trust. The Debian project has stuff like this in place and I'm sure this community could

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Handling absent maintainers

2010-08-05 Thread Ben Millwood
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Ben Millwood hask...@benmachine.co.uk wrote: It's worth mentioning that Hackage accounts aren't just given out for free - one has to specifically request them Er, to clarify, I mean signup can't be automated, because account creation is done by a human. Not that

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Handling absent maintainers

2010-08-04 Thread Mark Wotton
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Ben Millwood hask...@benmachine.co.uk wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 3:02 AM, Mark Wotton mwot...@gmail.com wrote: I've uploaded haskell-src-meta-mwotton, using the development version. It seems to work fine for my applications. It's a bit of a hack, but I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Handling absent maintainers

2010-08-04 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
On 5 August 2010 13:23, Mark Wotton mwot...@gmail.com wrote: Might it be possible to enable multiple maintainers on packages, each of whom can upload new versions? As far as I can tell, that's not currently possible with Cabal. Huh? Cabal doesn't care who the maintainers are: it just has a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Handling absent maintainers

2010-08-04 Thread Mark Wotton
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 August 2010 13:23, Mark Wotton mwot...@gmail.com wrote: Might it be possible to enable multiple maintainers on packages, each of whom can upload new versions? As far as I can tell, that's not currently

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Handling absent maintainers

2010-08-04 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
On 5 August 2010 13:32, Mark Wotton mwot...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 August 2010 13:23, Mark Wotton mwot...@gmail.com wrote: Might it be possible to enable multiple maintainers on packages, each of whom can

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Handling absent maintainers

2010-08-04 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: On 5 August 2010 13:32, Mark Wotton mwot...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 August 2010 13:23, Mark Wotton mwot...@gmail.com wrote: Might it be possible to enable multiple

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Handling absent maintainers

2010-08-03 Thread Ben Millwood
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 3:02 AM, Mark Wotton mwot...@gmail.com wrote: I've uploaded haskell-src-meta-mwotton, using the development version. It seems to work fine for my applications. It's a bit of a hack, but I can't think of a better way to do it for now. mark -- A UNIX signature isn't

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Handling absent maintainers

2010-07-17 Thread Mark Wotton
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Mark Wotton mwot...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I've recently had problems with haskell-src-meta. While it's a great package, it doesn't currently compile on GHC 6.12, and Matt Morrow doesn't seem to be around to push the version that does to Hackage. Our