[Haskell-cafe] Re: package naming policy

2010-06-11 Thread Henning Thielemann
On Tue, 8 Jun 2010, Don Stewart wrote: Great points: I've added them to this wiki page of for and against points: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Libraries/WhenToRewriteOrRename Please add points as you see fit, and maybe we can come up with a mitigation/change plan. Closely related is

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: package naming policy

2010-06-11 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Henning Thielemann lemm...@henning-thielemann.de writes: Closely related is the question of module names. 'transformers'+'monads-fd' are somehow an successor of 'mtl' and chose distinct package names, but there were module name clashes. They mostly hurted GHCi users, but this led to a lot of

[Haskell-cafe] Re: package naming policy (was: Please check your dependencies on fgl)

2010-06-08 Thread John Lato
From: Don Stewart d...@galois.com ivan.miljenovic: Thomas Bereknyei are currently re-writing fgl (just about completely from scratch) and we plan to make an initial release to get feedback on the API in the next few weeks. However, I'm sending this email out now to warn people that I

[Haskell-cafe] Re: package naming policy (was: Please check your dependencies on fgl)

2010-06-08 Thread Don Stewart
jwlato: From: Don Stewart d...@galois.com ivan.miljenovic: Thomas Bereknyei are currently re-writing fgl (just about completely from scratch) and we plan to make an initial release to get feedback on the API in the next few weeks. However, I'm sending this email out now to warn

[Haskell-cafe] Re: package naming policy (was: Please check your dependencies on fgl)

2010-06-08 Thread John Lato
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: jwlato: From: Don Stewart d...@galois.com ivan.miljenovic: Thomas Bereknyei are currently re-writing fgl (just about completely from scratch) and we plan to make an initial release to get feedback on the API in the

[Haskell-cafe] Re: package naming policy (was: Please check your dependencies on fgl)

2010-06-08 Thread Don Stewart
jwlato: Great points: I've added them to this wiki page of for and against points:    http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Libraries/WhenToRewriteOrRename Please add points as you see fit, and maybe we can come up with a mitigation/change plan. Thanks very much; that's a useful page.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: package naming policy

2010-06-08 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Don Stewart d...@galois.com writes: Yes, my intent here is to produce a set of guidelines for maintainers of important packages, that ensures we balance stability with innovation. We have a great document for what to consider when adding packages to the HP, for example:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: package naming policy

2010-06-08 Thread Jason Dagit
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com wrote: Don Stewart d...@galois.com writes: Yes, my intent here is to produce a set of guidelines for maintainers of important packages, that ensures we balance stability with innovation. We have a great

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: package naming policy

2010-06-08 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Jason Dagit da...@codersbase.com writes: On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com wrote: As part of this, we should consider if we want an official process to do what I've done to kick-off this whole discussion: have a way of telling users Oj! New