Bulat Ziganshin wrote: > Hello John, > > Thursday, February 1, 2007, 4:03:09 PM, you wrote: >> Does the Haskell community have an equivalent to C++ community's >> Boost project with the aim of writing libraries for the eventual inclusion >> into Haskell?
The Haskell community is hosted on the wiki at haskell.org. > i guess that the only reason why C++ people need such project is > because there are too many developers that want to develop such libs. > that's not true for Haskell. for example, the most successful library > of 2006 - ByteString - was developed by just 3 main contributors. if > you want to develop somewhat useful - just do it. if you want to add > more functionality to existing library - including base! - just send > your patches to the maintainer. the only thing we missing, imho, is a > darcs repository (or instructions for dummies like me on how to setup > my own publicly accessible repository, say, on haskell.org) > When I wrote the regex-* packages to upgrade and extend and replace Text.Regex I worked alone and then submitted them in time for the GHC 6.6 / base 2.0 release. They gave me darcs space (which I am still using for the project) on darcs.haskell.org. This was useful for the GHC developers since they needed some of it there for GHC anyway. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe