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

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