Re: [Haskell-community] [Haskell-cafe] Standard package file format

2016-09-16 Thread Chris Smith
I guess the overriding question I have here is: what is the PROBLEM being solved? I know of basically no beginners who were confused or intimidated by the syntax of Cabal's file format. It's fairly commonplace for beginners to be confused by the *semantics*: which fields are needed and what they

[Haskell-community] Creating a new @haskell.org mailing list?

2018-10-22 Thread Chris Smith
it at all. Thoughts? Thanks, Chris Smith ___ Haskell-community mailing list Haskell-community@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-community

Re: [Haskell-community] Creating a new @haskell.org mailing list?

2018-10-24 Thread Chris Smith
Jones wrote: > Good idea. “k12” is rather USA specific. What about > educat...@haskell.org? > > > > Simon > > > > *From:* Haskell-community *On > Behalf Of *Chris Smith > *Sent:* 22 October 2018 15:32 > *To:* Haskell-community > *Subject:* [Haskell-comm

Re: [Haskell-community] 2018 state of Haskell survey results

2018-11-18 Thread Chris Smith
Sadly, it looks like a Cabal/Stack thing. Of the responses with a country provided, 618 of 1226 claim to use Cabal, and 948 of 1226 claim to use Stack. Of the responses with no country, only 35 of 3868 claim to use Cabal, while 3781 of the 3868 claim to use Stack. Assuming independence, you'd

Re: [Haskell-community] 2018 state of Haskell survey results

2018-11-18 Thread Chris Smith
bmissions. Beyond what's in the CSV, the only other > thing I have is (some) email addresses. > > Fortunately I wrote a script to output all the charts and tables from the > survey responses. Once I've identified the problematic responses, I should > be able to update the script to ign

Re: [Haskell-community] 2018 state of Haskell survey results

2018-11-18 Thread Chris Smith
> For example, just reading this thread, it sounds like the bogus responses also really don't like the new release schedule. Maybe the troll wants the old release schedule back and was just lazy about programming the tool to vary the stack/cabal question answers adequately. There is another

Re: [Haskell-community] Creating a new @haskell.org mailing list?

2018-11-17 Thread Chris Smith
etting this > up, or do you think it should be straightforward? > > -g > On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 10:18 AM Chris Smith wrote: > > > > Good point, Simon. education@ sounds like a good choice, with the > understanding that we mean education for the general population, not >