On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 12:17 PM, John Goerzen <jgoer...@complete.org>wrote:
> Don Stewart wrote: > >> I'll just quickly mention one factor that contributes: >> >> * In 2.5 years we've gone from 10 libraries on Hackage to 2023 >> (literally!) >> >> That is a massive API to try to manage, hence the continuing move to >> focus on automated QA on Hackage, and automated tools -- no one wants >> to have to resolve those dependencies by hand. >> > > Yep, it's massive, and it's exciting. We seem to have gone from stodgy old > language to scrappy hot one. Which isn't a bad thing at all. > > Out of those 2023, there are certain libraries where small changes impact a > lot of people (say base, time, etc.) I certainly don't expect all 2023 to > be held to the same standard as base and time. We certainly need to have > room in the community for libraries that change rapidly too. > > I'd propose a very rough measuring stick: anything in the platform ought to > be carefully considered for introducing incompatibilities. Other > commonly-used libraries, such as HaXML and HDBC, perhaps should fit in that > criteria as well. > > I feel your pain John... I try to use Haskell commercially, and sometimes run into things I'm either going to have to re-implement myself or wait for a fix and do some workaround. Luckily I *like* this language enough to care to do it, but it does present a bit of a problem when trying to break it into an ecosystem full of C/C++ and Java when I have to back-peddle to explain why something in this "new" language that's supposed to help solve some problems with the "old" languages is not a magic bullet. I think managers expect magic bullets and holy grails... sometimes they just end up with "holy cow"'s (or other more interesting 4 letter words) instead. Dave > > -- John > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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