We are not discussing here what tool is the best and try to mandate everyone to use it. We are discussing how to efficiently use the scarce development resources (time, money) for the benefit of haskell community.
Well, in the end the proposals will be voted over. Less general proposals are likely to get fewer votes.
The consensus is already there. It is obvious the demand for such tool is high, hence many (failed) attempts. Failed because of the lack of resources and coordination.
Say what? I'm not familiar with the others, but Emacs and haskell-mode and ghc-mode and darcsum works pretty well for me - I'd certainly not call them failures. (Of course, I would rather see somebody spending GSoC working on them, but I accept that other people prefer other systems. But while I'm at it, some things I might like to see would be: - quickcheck/flymake support, so that funcitons with failing unit tests are highlighted automatically - code coverage highlighting in buffer - org-mode-like folding and refiling - automatic import/export list management - perhaps easy navigation between source and core? ) -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants