Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
Hello John,
Thursday, February 1, 2007, 4:03:09 PM, you wrote:
Does the Haskell community have an equivalent to C++ community's Boost project with the aim of writing libraries for the eventual inclusion into Haskell?
The Haskell community is hosted on the wiki at haskell.org.
i guess that the only reason why C++ people need such project is because there are too many developers that want to develop such libs. that's not true for Haskell. for example, the most successful library of 2006 - ByteString - was developed by just 3 main contributors. if you want to develop somewhat useful - just do it. if you want to add more functionality to existing library - including base! - just send your patches to the maintainer. the only thing we missing, imho, is a darcs repository (or instructions for dummies like me on how to setup my own publicly accessible repository, say, on haskell.org)
When I wrote the regex-* packages to upgrade and extend and replace Text.Regex I worked alone and then submitted them in time for the GHC 6.6 / base 2.0 release. They gave me darcs space (which I am still using for the project) on darcs.haskell.org. This was useful for the GHC developers since they needed some of it there for GHC anyway.