Re: [Haskell-cafe] Taking over `data-default-*`

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 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:

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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 wrote:

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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 wrote:

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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) _______________________________________________ Libraries mailing list Libraries@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/libraries

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