Hi Kyle,<br><br>Well, the web-routes-quasi package is basically an attempt to split out the quasi-quoting used in Yesod so that others can use it. The next release of Yesod will in fact depend on web-routes-quasi (in all likelihood).<br>
<br>The documentation on Yesod *is* sparse at the moment, mostly because the API is still immature and will have some major changes over the next few releases. If you&#39;re looking for something that will have backwards compatibility, Yesod is not for you at the moment.<br>
<br>I will say that I use Yesod in production on a number of websites, and it&#39;s worked well enough for me. One thing that it is majorly lacking is a persistence layer, but I&#39;m working on that[1]. I also have been toying with the idea of replacing HStringTemplate with a type-safe templating system[2]; for fun I&#39;m basing the syntax off of Haml[3]. If you want information on either of these projects, or have suggestions, I&#39;d love to hear them.<br>
<br>If you have other concerns, I&#39;m also interested in hearing them. Yesod is young and has plenty of room to grow, but I think it&#39;s a pleasure to program with and is filling a niche that is missed by other Haskell packages.<br>
<br>Michael<br><br>[1] <a href="http://github.com/snoyberg/persistent">http://github.com/snoyberg/persistent</a><br>[2] <a href="http://github.com/snoyberg/hamlet">http://github.com/snoyberg/hamlet</a><br>[3] <a href="http://haml-lang.com/">http://haml-lang.com/</a><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Kyle Murphy <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:orclev@gmail.com">orclev@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
I&#39;m looking at experimenting with developing a site and due to various constraints I&#39;m considering using one of the haskell frameworks. I experimented a bit with Happstack, although I&#39;m not all that happy with it and I&#39;m interested in alternatives. I&#39;ve also looked briefly at yesod but it doesn&#39;t seem to be very well documented and I&#39;ve got some concerns. The environment I&#39;m working in has constrained memory, about 300M physical, with a further 500M of swap, but a relatively beefy CPU, so I&#39;m trying to stay away from any of the in memory systems like MACID in happstack. At this point I&#39;m mostly toying with the different frameworks to try to get a feel for them, but in a couple months I&#39;m probably going to need to actually put together a production system that can handle some fairly low duty e-commerce. I&#39;m planning on using Google Checkout for order processing, but aside from that and the memory constraints I don&#39;t have any real hard rules for what the framework needs to support. I&#39;m currently running nginx to serve static content on the server, so I could potentially integrate with that, or I could just have whichever framework I end up using serve the static content as well.<br>

<br>So, my requirements are as follows:<br>1) Small memory footprint<br>2) Relatively simple to extend such that I can integrate it with Google Checkout<br>3) Documented well enough that I can figure out how to plumb everything together without needing to dig through the guts of the framework<br>

4) Relatively stable such that a year from now I don&#39;t need to re-write the entire site because the framework isn&#39;t maintained an no longer works on the current version of GHC.<br><br>Any suggestions?<br><br>P.S. I&#39;m interested in the quasi-quote package I saw mentioned here recently, but it looks more suited for use by framework developers rather than as a finished component, at least from the limited info I&#39;ve found.<br>

<br clear="all">-R. Kyle Murphy<br><font color="#888888">--<br>Curiosity was framed, Ignorance killed the cat.<br>
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