
On 22.10 09:04, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
Fyi, Alan is currently working on levaraging HaRe[1] in
https://github.com/alanz/Hs2010To201x (the `parsing-only` branch)
and it's already showing great promise. However, tools like this will only be able to handle the no-brainer cases, as in general it's a NP hard problem. But luckily, those boring mechanical refactorings usually represent the vast majority, and that's the tedious work we want tooling to assist us most with.
Yes, getting it 99% there as an automated tool would be enough for most cases.
C) Hackage displays vocally what works with which versions of GHC (Status reports do help somewhat)
I.e. something like
Yes! Is there a reason that it is not displayed on http://hackage.haskell.org/package/text which only displays a link to Status of a 7.8.3 build? How many percent of Hackage is built with matrix.h.h.o and is there a plan to integrate it into Hackage pages? - Taru Karttunen