I agree that you should avoid Data.Default, but there is still value in keeping the package up to date since it is well-used. I would appreciate it being actively maintained.

I would however find it in bad taste to do a take over that immediately marks the package as deprecated... 

Cheers,

Adam

On Tue, 8 May 2018 at 22:22 Tony Morris <tonymorris@gmail.com> wrote:

Because it's a penalising way of "passing an argument to a function"
with no benefit.


On 05/08/2018 07:10 PM, Marco Zocca wrote:
> data-default alone is depended on by > 500 packages :
> http://packdeps.haskellers.com/reverse/data-default
>
> Could you motivate why it's not a good idea ?
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 11:02 AM, Christopher Allen <cma@bitemyapp.com> wrote:
>> Is this something folks still think is a good idea? I purge
>> Data.Default from projects I work on.
>>
>> On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 3:58 AM, Marco Zocca <zocca.marco@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>>   I've been increasingly relying on data-default-class, but sadly it
>>> doesn't look like it's currently maintained; there are some tickets on
>>> the github issue tracker that would need some attention.
>>>
>>> I have tried contacting the authro/current maintainer Lukas Mai (CC'd)
>>> by email but have not received an answer so far (I hope he's doing
>>> well, btw).
>>>
>>> This is my first public request for taking over the `data-default`
>>> family of packages:
>>>
>>> data-default-class
>>> data-default-instances-base
>>> data-default-instances-containers
>>> data-default-instances-dlist
>>> data-default-instances-old-locale
>>> data-default
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Marco Zocca
>>> (http://hackage.haskell.org/user/ocramz)
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>>
>> --
>> Chris Allen
>> Currently working on http://haskellbook.com
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