is datetime actively maintained?

Carter Schonwald

16 Jan 2011 16 Jan '11

9:05 p.m.

Hey All, I can't tell if datetime is actively maintained, and its version constraints need to be adjusted to allow base4 (which would then allow a whole mess of other packages including gitit build under ghc7). I've been sucessful building gitit with ghc7 64 on OS X and using it if that one constraint on datetime is modified. any thoughts? cheers, -Carter

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Max Bolingbroke

17 Jan 17 Jan

2:50 a.m.

Hi, I also wanted to build gitit on Windows and encountered the datetime issue. I sent the maintainer (Eric Sessoms) a request to bump his version bounds on the 22nd December, but haven't received a reply. (I had to bump a lot of other gitit version bounds, but those bumps *have* been taken upstream) I'm not sure what to do in a situation like this - since Hackage has no security I could just upload a new version of datetime with the bumped bounds, but this hardly seems polite, and I'm not really keen on maintaining datetime long term. The change would also be lost if Eric decides to upload a new version of his own. Cheers, Max On 17 January 2011 02:05, Carter Schonwald wrote:

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Hey All, I can't tell if datetime is actively maintained, and its version constraints need to be adjusted to allow base4 (which would then allow a whole mess of other packages including gitit build under ghc7). I've been sucessful building gitit with ghc7 64 on OS X and using it if that one constraint on datetime is modified. any thoughts? cheers, -Carter

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Henk-Jan van Tuyl

2:11 p.m.

On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 08:50:52 +0100, Max Bolingbroke wrote:

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Hi,

I also wanted to build gitit on Windows and encountered the datetime issue. I sent the maintainer (Eric Sessoms) a request to bump his version bounds on the 22nd December, but haven't received a reply. (I had to bump a lot of other gitit version bounds, but those bumps *have* been taken upstream)

I'm not sure what to do in a situation like this - since Hackage has no security I could just upload a new version of datetime with the bumped bounds, but this hardly seems polite, and I'm not really keen on maintaining datetime long term. The change would also be lost if Eric decides to upload a new version of his own.

Cheers, Max

I found Eric Sessoms' blog[0], he writes (via speech recognition software), that he cannot type because of tendinitis in his hands. That probably explains why he does not answer; maybe someone willing to take over maintenance can contact him via Skype or something like that. Other packages with his name in the maintainer field: - erlang - fitsio - scgi Regards, Henk-Jan van Tuyl [0] http://esessoms.posterous.com/ -- http://Van.Tuyl.eu/ http://members.chello.nl/hjgtuyl/tourdemonad.html --

John MacFarlane

4:25 p.m.

I've already modified the dev versions of filestore and gitit so they don't depend on datetime. This should solve the problem. I expect to be releasing new versions of both before long. John +++ Max Bolingbroke [Jan 17 11 07:50 ]:

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Hi,

I also wanted to build gitit on Windows and encountered the datetime issue. I sent the maintainer (Eric Sessoms) a request to bump his version bounds on the 22nd December, but haven't received a reply. (I had to bump a lot of other gitit version bounds, but those bumps *have* been taken upstream)

I'm not sure what to do in a situation like this - since Hackage has no security I could just upload a new version of datetime with the bumped bounds, but this hardly seems polite, and I'm not really keen on maintaining datetime long term. The change would also be lost if Eric decides to upload a new version of his own.

Cheers, Max

On 17 January 2011 02:05, Carter Schonwald wrote:

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Hey All, I can't tell if datetime is actively maintained, and its version constraints need to be adjusted to allow base4 (which would then allow a whole mess of other packages including gitit build under ghc7). I've been sucessful building gitit with ghc7 64 on OS X and using it if that one constraint on datetime is modified. any thoughts? cheers, -Carter

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