[Haskell-cafe] Takeover request: Haskell CSS Syntax

[Brandon Allbery]

You can specify it in `cabal.project`, yes.
https://cabal.readthedocs.io/en/3.8/cabal-project.html#specifying-packages-from-remote-version-control-locations

On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 12:49 PM Adrian Lyall Cochrane
<adrian at openwork.nz> wrote:
>
> Thanks,
>
> Those are good paths forward! I'm using Cabal for my own projects, is
> there a way to have Cabal reference a GitHub fork?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Adrian Cochrane
> OpenWork Ltd
>
> Lead developer of:
> libdggs geospatial analysis
> Rhapsode aphaestus web browsers
>
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 5:58 AM, Olaf Klinke <olf at aatal-apotheke.de>
> wrote:
> > Adrian,
> >
> > you probably know this, but:
> > (1) Instead of a takeover, you could ask Tomas Carnecky to become
> > merely a co-maintainer on hackage which would put you in power to sync
> > the github and hackage versions.
> >
> > (2) At least with stack you can specify a github fork as dependency of
> > your project. It is not nice, but I was forced to do the same when a
> > repo owner ignored my pull request. For example
> >
> > # cabal file.
> > # Note: xls-0.1.3 is the latest hackage version
> > build-depends: xls >= 0.1.4
> >
> > # stack.yaml
> > extra-deps:
> > - git: https://github.com/olafklinke/xls.git
> >   commit: 4e7a2ba639cc72678e4e40a06afd3c481d63f2e3
> >
> > In your case, though, 0.1.0.0 is the package number on hackage as well
> > as in the more up-to-date githup repo, so I don't know how the
> > resolver
> > would figure out which to use. Safer would be to fork and increment
> > the
> > cabal package version number, then proceed as above. You can later
> > simply delete the entry in stack.yaml when your fork has been merged
> > into hackage.
> >
> > Olaf
> >
> >>  Hi,
> >>
> >>  I'd like to request to take over the css-syntax hackage! The lead
> >>  developer of which seems to be barely active. They did accept
> >> someone
> >>  else's year-old pull request to fix an issue I was having regarding
> >>  upgrading to Text v2 upon being prodded, but hasn't responded to
> >>  communications since regarding publishing this update to Hackage.
> >>
> >>  I am developing my own (NLnet-funded) noJS browser engine in
> >> Haskell,
> >>  and have released several modular components of it to Hackage in the
> >>  hopes they will be useful to others for other purposes. I've
> >>  benefited
> >>  tremendously from Haskell CSS Syntax & would like to see the project
> >>  continue, I can manage it as one of those subcomponents. I do not
> >> see
> >>  much further development being required, especially considering how
> >>  stable the W3C strives to keep part of the spec extremely stable.
> >>
> >>  My communications to Haskell CSS Syntax:
> >>  https://github.com/wereHamster/haskell-css-syntax/issues/5
> >>  https://github.com/wereHamster/haskell-css-syntax/pull/4
> >>
> >>  Thoughts?
> >>
> >>  Adrian Cochrane
> >>  OpenWork Ltd
> >
>
>
>
>
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