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

10 May 2018

      An even better version (arguably) is *hostile* maintenance. Every time
someone notices a new type in a dependency, add an instance with a
TypeError constraint.

On Thu, May 10, 2018, 4:57 PM David Feuer  wrote:
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I think a reasonable alternative is *passive* maintenance. Keep the
package compiling, but commit to never adding new instances. This should
gradually nudge people away when they try to use the package, find
something is missing, and see the big bold "we're not gonna fix that".
On Thu, May 10, 2018, 12:56 PM Adam Bergmark  wrote:
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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:
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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)
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