On 2014-03-15 17:52, Carter Schonwald wrote:

ccing Libraries (forgot)

On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Carter Schonwald mailto:carter.schonwald@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey All, Dataenc is needed for building darcs, and currently doesn't build on 7.8 without some easy patching (i'm also trying to mod the tesing code to use the cabal test suite support but that doesn't seem to work). I couldn't find a repo online so i started one here https://github.com/cartazio/dataenc

@magnus, Are you still game for continuing to maintain it? (the hackage docs indicate that you have uploader acls but also that theres no maintainer per se and theres no repo online)

I'm pretty sure that Magnus is now only maintaining sandi: https://github.com/joeyh/git-annex/pull/15 http://hackage.haskell.org/package/sandi Looks like dataenc has not been marked as deprecated though (probably because the name change predates the hackage change where you can set deprecated yourself) -- Vincent

On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Carter Schonwald < carter.schonwald@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey All, Dataenc is needed for building darcs, and currently doesn't build on 7.8 without some easy patching (i'm also trying to mod the tesing code to use the cabal test suite support but that doesn't seem to work). I couldn't find a repo online so i started one here https://github.com/cartazio/dataenc

The "official" repo can be found at https://github.com/magthe/dataenc

@magnus, Are you still game for continuing to maintain it? (the hackage docs indicate that you have uploader acls but also that theres no maintainer per se and theres no repo online)

thoughts?

I disowned it quite a while ago and can't say I'm very interested in picking up formal maintenance again. I wouldn't mind accepting a pull request and uploading a new version to Hackage as a one-off though. As Vincent pointed out I consider sandi[1] to be the replacement of dataenc. The API is similar enough that it should be trivial to modify darcs to use sandi instead. If it turns out to not be trivial I'm very likely to look at that as a bug of sandi itself. :) /M [1]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/sandi -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. -- Alan Kay