Re: [Haskell-cafe] The Future of MissingH

2006-11-26 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello John, Friday, November 24, 2006, 7:32:55 PM, you wrote: Josef Svenningsson posted a comment on my blog today that got me to thinking. He suggested that people may be intimidated by the size of MissingH, confused by the undescriptive name, and don't quite know what's in there. And I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The Future of MissingH

2006-11-26 Thread Dougal Stanton
Quoth Bulat Ziganshin, nevermore, while i personally prefer to read source code and fascinated with quality of code documenting in your lib, most peoples prefer to read Haddocks, which again should be made available on web I just thought I should point out, cos there appears to be some

[Haskell-cafe] The Future of MissingH

2006-11-24 Thread John Goerzen
Hi, Josef Svenningsson posted a comment on my blog today that got me to thinking. He suggested that people may be intimidated by the size of MissingH, confused by the undescriptive name, and don't quite know what's in there. And I think he's right. I've been passively thinking about what

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The Future of MissingH

2006-11-24 Thread Malcolm Wallace
John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The major features [of MissingH] are: * A general-purpose modular logging infrastructure * A virtual filesystem component (similar to VFS in Gnome, but written inHaskell) * A configuration file parser, compatible with Python's and Perl's,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The Future of MissingH

2006-11-24 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi John, Should this all be one library? No, several smaller libraries would be nice. Should the module naming scheme be changed? Yes, MissingH is not the place to put these things. You run the risk of more name clashes, but thats ok. Could, and should, any of this be integrated into

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The Future of MissingH

2006-11-24 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi How could greater community participation be encouraged, while still encouraging quality control? It also took me quite a while to find the darcs repository, and as far as I can see there is no web page on what MissingH has in it, other than a textual readme and the GNU entry. If there

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The Future of MissingH

2006-11-24 Thread Jason Dagit
On 11/24/06, John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What else should be done to make this a valuable resource for Haskell programmers? And a showcase for what is possible with Haskell? I was going to try MissingH on win32 but when I did it refused to compile due to a dependency on, I think,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The Future of MissingH

2006-11-24 Thread Vyacheslav Akhmechet
Until this email I was under the impression that the project is dead. For example, if I go to google and type 'MissingH' the first link is fsf's directory page. When I try to get to MissingH website from there the link appears to be down. I can't really figure out what MissingH includes and where