On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 01:39:08AM +0000, Neil Mitchell wrote:
Hi Marc,
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Any ideas, comments?
Anyone out there who wants to join and help implementing this idea?
I'd ask why there is a Setup.hs file at all, a nice textual declarative form seems much more sensible.
Thus you are asking why there is support for hooks at all? Sorry I can't follow you, sir! You can encode everything
in Haskell, but you probably shouldn't...
First off, its harder to read, harder to parse (unless you happen to be a Haskell compiler) Aeh.. Why are you programming in haskell, than? Again I can't follow.. If this is hard to parse, would you mind pointing me to the lines you had real troubl understanding them?
Or do you think its hard to read / use for total haskell beginners? If so its no problem to also provide a function as cabal does has it: replace the line handle congfig targets by handleFromSimpleTextFile and every one will be happy? and just not as straight forward. Should you be
able to pick which library version you want based on the day of the week? Should your package name be allowed to be a random string which changes each time? Why not ? If somewody likes to? But the library won't be used than.. He can do this now, too. He/ she has to provide a different cabal file each day.. This shouldn't be any problem using php name: <?=randomString?>
How do you protect people from using libs with rubbish code? I can't do anything moro than quote yourself: " I would demand at the very least a real name, email address - but really, in an online world those things are nearly useless. I guess the only thing to do is to trust that people who have learnt enough about monads and IO to hijack Haskell things probably realise how cool Haskell is... " (quoted from http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2007-January/006662.html) I think this might apply here, too ;) If you don't unerstand how I think this applies aske again. But I think its not much effort convincing me to write simple text files ;) I adbmit that I plan to use this packaging system not just for haskell, but also for compiling microcontroller code etc.. I like Makefiles but I also hate them.. Thus textfiles justd wouldn't be expressive enough for my needs. Thanks Marc