[Haskell-cafe] haskellnet

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi

Email the original author, if you can. Ideally work with them to
upload a working version to hackage. If they're not interested
hopefully they'll make you the new maintainer. If you can't contact
them, just upload a new version anyway - as long as it's done for the
benefit of the community and not with malicious intent, everyone is
happy.

And please do make sure you upload something working, I imagine this
will be very useful to lots of people!

Thanks for your efforts

Neil

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Robert Wills <wrwills at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Yesterday I found myself wanting to clear out a spam-ridden pop
> account without downloading all the messages. Rather than just using
> Python's poplib, I thought I might look for a haskell solution and
> came across Haskellnet:
> http://darcs.haskell.org/SoC/haskellnet/
>
> I ended up spending much of the afternoon getting it to compile and
> much of last night trying to get the pop library to actually work (the
> 'strip' method produced exceptions).  It was a good learning
> experience (this was helpful:
> http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/no-more-exceptions-debugging-haskell-code-with-ghci/).
>
> I'm writing here because I'm wondering whether it would be worthwhile
> putting it up on hackage? From searching this list, there seem to have
> been a few times when people have stumbled across it but got
> frustrated when it didn't compile.  If so, what's the protocol? Is the
> original author, Jun Mukai, still around?
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
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