Whoops, I sent this to just brian by mistake. On 21/05/05, Brian Smith <brianlsmith@gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/13/05, Gour <haskell_list@atmarama.org> wrote:
So, why not form HaskellForge and thereby form powerful Haskell alliance, ie. common site which can host many/most present Haskell projects offering appropriate web & other (eg. darcs) services?
If we take a look on new HCAR, we can see that many Haskell projects are scattered all around, so it would be nice to have them on one place.
On the other hand, I bet that the majority of developers here also develop software using languages other than Haskell. Further, if these people are like me, then I would want to keep all of my projects in the same place, regardless of implementation language. That is, I don't think that people would want to host their Haskell projects at HaskellForge, Java projects at Java.net, Ruby projects at RubyForge, etc. I think that these language-specific sites are best reserved for infrastructure projects like compilers and reusable libraries.
The thing is, Haskell people tend to want to use Darcs for their Haskell stuff, and I don't think there are sites like sourceforge supporting it yet...