On Wednesday, February 26, 2014, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b@gmail.com> wrote:

Seriously, if everyone follows your versioning system, hsenv becomes essential just as RVM is essential in the Rails community; everyone has to provide their own curated system (your Stackage isn't going to serve everyone's needs, and asking you to make it serve everyone's needs is unreasonable and quite likely an impossible task when everyone else is also doing their own thing) and users have to maintain separate ecosystems for everything they use. This isn't maintainable for much of anyone.

Actually, why wouldn't stackage as a curated system work for everyone? Stackage already has over 10% of hackage covered, and I'd imagine if you look at hackage download numbers, that covers the vast majority of the most downloaded packages. I really do think that a curated system could make most people happy, if it gets enough buy-in.