Stable hackage is quiet similar but has a different philosophy of solving the dependency problems with hackage. I am not proposing to cover all the functionalities of boost but leaning towards following a similar philosophy. We could start with libraries covering functionality of c++ stl (some of them are already implemented in containers) and then see where this goes. I know it requires real hard work and dedication and thats why I raised this as a community proposal to see if people are actually interested. 

-SC


On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Johannes Waldmann <waldmann@imn.htwk-leipzig.de> wrote:
satvik chauhan <mystic.satvik <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I am inclined more towards Boost like set of libraries.

For reference, http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_54_0/

It's not only "algorithms and data structures" -
it also contains Filesystem, System, Interprocess etc.

Perhaps "stable hackage" goes in this direction?
http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2012/11/stable-vetted-hackage

Reading the Boost FAQ and History might prove useful,
( http://www.boost.org/users/proposal.pdf )
as perhaps the process could be emulated.

One way or the other - such a plan needs dedication,
but also hard resources (time, money).

Looks like a task for http://industry.haskell.org/
but of course they decide where they put their money.
And they do, e.g., they sponsor Hackage(2)

- J.W.


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Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
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Email: mystic.satvik@gmail.com , satvikc@iitk.ac.in

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