[Haskell-cafe] Re: Damnit, we need a CPAN.

[Achim Schneider]

Wolfgang Jeltsch <g9ks157k at acme.softbase.org> wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, 29. Mai 2008 17:38 schrieb Achim Schneider:
> > […]
> 
> > Rationale: We need […] grapefruit authors that commit to hackage
> 
> Our reason to not commtting Grapefruit to Hackage so far was that
> this would mean making an official release and we thought that
> Grapefruit is not yet ready for this.  However, I might be wrong in
> the sense that also despite its current deficiencies, Grapefruit
> should be available from Hackage.  What do you think?
> 
Release early, release often. 
http://catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ar01s04.html

> By the way, it’s nice to hear that there are people which are really 
> interested in trying Grapefruit out.  It still makes me wonder at
> times that I’ve made something that other people find really useful.
> (Of course, I’ve not done Grapefruit alone but Matthias Reisner has
> also done a notable amount of work.)  So I would really like to get
> feedback concerning peoples impressions about Grapefruit.  Seeing
> interest in Grapefruit might give me more motivation for the work on
> it and therefore speed up its development.
> 
I'm generally very interested in declarative GUI programming, but not
nearly enough acquainted with the whole topic to judge one project's
approach over the other. I just followed standard scientific evaluation
technique to select the projects to consider: The ones with the most and
most recent activity win.

So far, my impression is that documentation is severely lacking, but
then I'm too busy watching Babylon 5 right now and did not get more
than half an hour or so looking at grapefruit.

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