[Haskell-cafe] Open-source projects for beginning Haskell students?

[John Lato]

There's the "doctest" package: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/doctest,
which looks pretty good and has a number of users (35 direct reverse deps).

It has support for cabal test integration, although I would like to see
better integration with other test tools.  But that can be added in the
test executable I suppose.

My only quibble with this suggestion is that asking beginners to do this
sort of work may do more harm than good.  It would certainly be helpful,
but I don't think most people would find it interesting.



On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Edward Z. Yang <ezyang at mit.edu> wrote:

> I also support this suggestion.  Although, do we have the build
> infrastructure
> for this?!
>
> Edward
>
> Excerpts from Michael Orlitzky's message of Mon Mar 11 19:52:12 -0700 2013:
> > On 03/11/2013 11:48 AM, Brent Yorgey wrote:
> > >
> > > So I'd like to do it again this time around, and am looking for
> > > particular projects I can suggest to them.  Do you have an open-source
> > > project with a few well-specified tasks that a relative beginner (see
> > > below) could reasonably make a contribution towards in the space of
> > > about four weeks? I'm aware that most tasks don't fit that profile,
> > > but even complex projects usually have a few "simple-ish" tasks that
> > > haven't yet been done just because "no one has gotten around to it
> > > yet".
> >
> > It's not exciting, but adding doctest suites with examples to existing
> > packages would be a great help.
> >
> >   * Good return on investment.
> >
> >   * Not too hard.
> >
> >   * The project is complete when you stop typing.
> >
>
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