On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH <allbery.b@gmail.com> wrote:

Somehow the Haskell community is hellbent on repeating the mistakes every other community learned about the hard way years ago, especially in the area of dependencies (first refusing to acknowledge the need for upper dependency limits, more recently trying to avoid adding an epoch — and I'm not counting how packages included with the compiler but not recognized as such by Cabal lead directly to Cabal introducing diamond dependency failures).  Is this *really* necessary, or should those of us who've seen it before just sit back and watch you all ram your heads against the same brick walls?

(Why no, it doesn't look like a brick wall now; that's the point.  It *will*.  Learn *before* it happens.)

Hi Brandon: are any of these lessons written up somewhere? (I'd love to be able to read about what the important ones are, their rationale, etc.) Thanks, Robby