Hi
Email the original author, if you can. Ideally work with them to
upload a working version to hackage. If they're not interested
hopefully they'll make you the new maintainer. If you can't contact
them, just upload a new version anyway - as long as it's done for the
benefit of the community and not with malicious intent, everyone is
happy.
And please do make sure you upload something working, I imagine this
will be very useful to lots of people!
Thanks for your efforts
Neil
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Robert Wills
Hello,
Yesterday I found myself wanting to clear out a spam-ridden pop account without downloading all the messages. Rather than just using Python's poplib, I thought I might look for a haskell solution and came across Haskellnet: http://darcs.haskell.org/SoC/haskellnet/
I ended up spending much of the afternoon getting it to compile and much of last night trying to get the pop library to actually work (the 'strip' method produced exceptions). It was a good learning experience (this was helpful: http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/no-more-exceptions-debugging-haskell...).
I'm writing here because I'm wondering whether it would be worthwhile putting it up on hackage? From searching this list, there seem to have been a few times when people have stumbled across it but got frustrated when it didn't compile. If so, what's the protocol? Is the original author, Jun Mukai, still around?
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