On 07/16/11 at 11:12pm, Greg Weber wrote:
I like these helpers! I am wondering if they can be organized a bit better For the helpers that aren't specific to yesod (Shorten, Time, Gravatar, Search) could that be move to a web-goodies or web-helpers module so it is clear for non-Yesod users that they can use them and that there isn't a yesod dependency?
You're absolutely right. Search isn't even /web/-specific, let alone yesod-specific. It would be good to have a few different packages with only the deps each needs. Not sure when I'll get the time to do any major restructuring, but I have no qualms leaving it up to someone else to take care of via pull request (if they're so inclined).
I am also wondering if it is best to remove the Goodies namespace? But for something like Time it might be named something like Display.Time (maybe there is a better convention on hackage already).
I think I had that because I have some pages where I use almost all of these and it was nice to just `import Yesod.Goodies`. I'm open to letting it go though; I see Michael took the "Helpers" namespace out of at least one yesod package recently -- maybe that's a trend to follow. -- patrick brisbin