Hi, I'd be happy to transfer ownership of DrIFT to a good home. I've not had the inclination to maintain DrIFT for ages now, for various reasons: my job takes too much of my coding time; I've lost touch with the latest changes to the haskell report / GHC / MPCs whatever etc; and I became dispirited by the reception that DrIFT initially received (no theoretic foundation -- it munges strings!!). It all seemed less important once I escaped academia... Anyhow, its great to hear of the different plans you have for DrIFT -- I'm glad its of some use to you. Good Luck Noel -- Noel Winstanley Engineer - Esgem Limited www.esgem.com Registered in England at 7 Monarch Court, Emerson's Green, Bristol BS16 7FH. Reg No. 3372135 Tel: 0117 957 2345
Okay, it appears that there is popular support for a maintained version of DrIFT somewhere. I would be most willing to take over as project maintainer. Judging from the emails I recieved, it appears that many people have written small patches to DrIFT but with no where to send them, they just kept them to themselves. Since there already is a version in the fptools CVS, it would make sense to use that as the main repository for development, I guess a good plan of action would be for me to create a main web page (probably at http://homer.netmar.com/~john/computer/haskell/DrIFT/) to distribute it from and then bring the cvs tree up to date with all my changes + the others people are submitting and then develop from there. I am undecided about where DrIFT should go in the cvs tree. DrIFT itself can be pure Haskell98 (even if some of the code it generates is not.) If people have suggestions on how this should work then let me know. although, perhaps the easiest thing would be to just have two different makefiles in cvs, one called by the main fptools build, the other used when the package is distributed seperately. does this sound like a good plan to all involved? happy DrIFTing, John -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Meacham - California Institute of Technology, Alum. - john@foo.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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