[Haskell] HaskellForge

Samuel Bronson naesten at gmail.com
Wed May 25 16:27:26 EDT 2005


Whoops, I sent this to just brian by mistake.
On 21/05/05, Brian Smith <brianlsmith at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/13/05, Gour <haskell_list at atmarama.org> wrote:
> > So, why not form HaskellForge and thereby form powerful Haskell
> > alliance, ie.  common site which can host many/most present Haskell
> > projects offering appropriate web & other (eg. darcs) services?
> >
> > If we take a look on new HCAR, we can see that many Haskell projects are
> > scattered all around, so it would be nice to have them on one place.
>
> On the other hand, I bet that the majority of developers here also
> develop software using languages other than Haskell. Further, if these
> people are like me, then I would want to keep all of my projects in
> the same place, regardless of implementation language. That is, I
> don't think that people would want to host their Haskell projects at
> HaskellForge, Java projects at Java.net, Ruby projects at RubyForge,
> etc. I think that these language-specific sites are best reserved for
> infrastructure projects like compilers and reusable libraries.

The thing is, Haskell people tend to want to use Darcs for their
Haskell stuff, and I don't think there are sites like sourceforge
supporting it yet...


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