[Haskell-cafe] Parsec community and up-to-date documentation

[Konstantine Rybnikov]

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Roman Cheplyaka <roma at ro-che.info> wrote:

> * Konstantine Rybnikov <k-bx at k-bx.com> [2013-03-25 00:19:04+0200]
> > Hi!
> >
> > I've been busy with (trying to) learning/using parsec lately and as a
> > beginner had a lot of headache starting from outdated documentation in
> > various places, lack of more tutorials, confusion between Text.Parsec and
> > Text.ParseCombinator modules and so on.
> >
> > While I solved most of my problems via googling / reading stackoverflow /
> > reading source code (of outdated version first, btw, the one I got from
> > Daan's homepage :), I still had a feeling all the time that I'm doing
> > something wrong and that I can't find place where "party is going on".
> >
> > So I wondered, what can I do to create a community around Parsec, to get
> > issue tracking, pull-requests, up-to-date comprehensive documentation and
> > tutorials etc.? Parsec seems like a perfect candidate for something like
> > this.
>
> A couple of years ago I decided to do pretty much this — create
> up-to-date comprehensive documentation for Parsec. Unfortunately, the
> project turned out too ambitious for me at the time. The only part of it
> that I've finished is published as this SO answer:
> http://stackoverflow.com/a/6040237/110081
>
> Of course, SO answers are not a substitute for good documentation, but
> they are a good way to start, and you can later merge those answers into
> something more coherent. So this is one way you approach it — just
> publish the knowledge you've acquired as self-answered questions on SO.
>
> Roman
>

Thanks, Roman. I've totally read this answer some time yesterday (too late,
unfortunately). You also seemed (due to logs) to implement functionality I
needed (lookAhead, if I'm not mistaken). Thanks!

But I just don't understand why such a basic thing as live community-hub
for a project (github page would be enough for this) is so hard to create.
I'm also not saying I would write a lot of docs, but at least making them
more "up to date" doesn't look as too ambitious task.
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