Re: Haskell Platform Proposal: HLint

On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 11:40 +0100, Niklas Broberg wrote:

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Yitzchak Gale wrote:

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The only problem is that it will take some work to adapt haskell-src-exts to Haskell 20nn. I spoke to Niklas about this. He has in principle volunteered to take on the task, but he can't start on it for a few months. And I don't think it would be wise to make the package name changes and end-of-life the current haskell-src until this is done.

Yes, I agree with both Duncan and Yitz here. It would be some monkey work to introduce a "simple" AST, but nothing tricky in principle. I wouldn't mind adding such an AST to haskell-src-exts, and I think that's the best solution long-term.

But as I'm on the final stretch of my PhD thesis work, I simply don't need more opportunities for procrastination right now, hence the "few months"... ;-)

I have full sympathy with that! :-)

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So unless someone else can do the work, we may have to wait until the following HP release.

I believe that would be the case regardless, no actual proposal for adding haskell-src-exts has been written yet.

Right, you'd want to be targeting the release in 6months, or 12months. Duncan