[Haskell-cafe] Taking over `data-default-*`

[David Feuer]

I think a reasonable alternative is *passive* maintenance. Keep the package
compiling, but commit to never adding new instances. This should gradually
nudge people away when they try to use the package, find something is
missing, and see the big bold "we're not gonna fix that".

On Thu, May 10, 2018, 12:56 PM Adam Bergmark <adam at bergmark.nl> wrote:

> I agree that you should avoid Data.Default, but there is still value in
> keeping the package up to date since it is well-used. I would appreciate it
> being actively maintained.
>
> I would however find it in bad taste to do a take over that immediately
> marks the package as deprecated...
>
> Cheers,
> Adam
>
>
> On Tue, 8 May 2018 at 22:22 Tony Morris <tonymorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Because it's a penalising way of "passing an argument to a function"
>> with no benefit.
>>
>>
>> On 05/08/2018 07:10 PM, Marco Zocca wrote:
>> > data-default alone is depended on by > 500 packages :
>> > http://packdeps.haskellers.com/reverse/data-default
>> >
>> > Could you motivate why it's not a good idea ?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 11:02 AM, Christopher Allen <cma at bitemyapp.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> Is this something folks still think is a good idea? I purge
>> >> Data.Default from projects I work on.
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 3:58 AM, Marco Zocca <zocca.marco at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>> Dear all,
>> >>>
>> >>>   I've been increasingly relying on data-default-class, but sadly it
>> >>> doesn't look like it's currently maintained; there are some tickets on
>> >>> the github issue tracker that would need some attention.
>> >>>
>> >>> I have tried contacting the authro/current maintainer Lukas Mai (CC'd)
>> >>> by email but have not received an answer so far (I hope he's doing
>> >>> well, btw).
>> >>>
>> >>> This is my first public request for taking over the `data-default`
>> >>> family of packages:
>> >>>
>> >>> data-default-class
>> >>> data-default-instances-base
>> >>> data-default-instances-containers
>> >>> data-default-instances-dlist
>> >>> data-default-instances-old-locale
>> >>> data-default
>> >>>
>> >>> Kind regards,
>> >>> Marco Zocca
>> >>> (http://hackage.haskell.org/user/ocramz)
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>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Chris Allen
>> >> Currently working on http://haskellbook.com
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