[Haskell-cafe] Maintaining lambdabot

[Dan Burton]

Sounds great. Lambdabot is an important icon to the Haskell community; it
will be nice to brush off the bitrot and make lambdabot easier for the
average Haskeller to install without having to rely on Cale keeping it
running on irc (grateful, though we are).

-- Dan Burton
On Feb 17, 2013 3:04 PM, "Jan Stolarek" <jan.stolarek at p.lodz.pl> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> as some of you may have noticed Lambdabot doesn't build on GHC 7.6.1 due
> to OldException being
> removed (and a few other changes). I updated the code so that it builds on
> latest GHC release.
> The updated code is available here:
>
> https://github.com/killy9999/lambdabot/tree/upstream
>
> It builds on Linux, but I am not 100% certain that it will build on
> Windows. If it doesn't I will
> be grateful for reporting this (and any other) issues on the bug tracker:
>
> https://github.com/killy9999/lambdabot/issues
>
> The changes required to make the code run weren't as small as I initially
> thought they will be. In
> some places this resulted in a bit ugly code, but aside from that I think
> that everything should
> work correctly.
>
> Now I would like to do a bit of maintanance on the project, since the code
> is a bit of a mess and
> it could use some cleanup. My plans are:
>
> - clean up the package namespace by placing existing modules in Lambdabot
> module
> - integrate lambdabot-utils into lambdabot (already done)
> - reformat the code so that it's easier to read
>
> ans if time allows:
>
> - cleanup some messy code
> - update the package dependencies so that lambdabot relies on maintained
> libraries (e.g. I thought
> about replacing readline with haskeline).
>
> This changes would be quite invasive and code wouldn't be compatible with
> the lambdabot repo on
> haskell.org. So before I start making any of them I would like to hear
> from the community if such
> changes in the source code of lambdabot would be  considered helpful and
> acceptable.
>
> Janek
>
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