On 13/06/2012 20:39, Bardur Arantsson wrote:
On 06/13/2012 02:56 PM, Simon Marlow wrote:
I am making a formal proposal to have the async package included in the Haskell Platform:
http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/Proposals/async
See the wiki paage for details, and a list of open issues for discussion.
I just uploaded the async package itself to Hackage:
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/async-2.0.0.0
documentation isn't there yet, so I've uploaded it here:
http://community.haskell.org/~simonmar/async/
I have set the deadline to 13 August 2012 (2 months' time), with comments due by 13 July 2012 (one month). There's plenty of time before the next platform release anyway (scheduled for 12 November 2012).
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AFAIUI the HP is for battle-tested code and libraries where you can just say "here, use this!" IMO async doesn't pass this test since it hasn't seen any real use yet.
FWIW, the API does look very nice... but maybe we should give it a few months of real use to flesh out real-world problems and bugs in general?
That's a fair criticism, I thought someone would bring it up. So my thinking here is that - similar APIs already exist on Hackage, so it's not completely new (and that also demonstrates demand) - the code is mostly very simple, it's hard to go wrong. But if people feel we should wait a while, that's fine by me. Cheers, Simon