FW: Library infrastructure

[Seth Kurtzberg]

On 22 Apr 2003 16:21:36 +0200
Yoann Padioleau <Yoann.Padioleau@irisa.fr> wrote:

> "Simon Peyton-Jones" <simonpj@microsoft.com> writes:
>=20
> > Gentle Haskellers
> >=20
> > Haskell has now got a decent, hierarchical module system, supported by
> > GHC, Hugs and NHC, and the library structure is now quite well
> > populated.  For example, here are the "base" libraries shipped with GHC
> > (similar libraries come with Hugs and Nhc):
> > 	http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/base/index.html
> >=20
> > Languages flourish when libraries are plentiful, reliable, and well
> > documented.  In an open-source community like the Haskell community,
> > plentiful libraries depend on contributions from the community. =20
> >=20
> > 	The difficulty is that it is currently not obvious what Joe
> > Programmer=20
> > 	should do to contribute a library to the community.
> >=20
> > 	I think this difficulty is a major obstacle to Haskell's
> > progress,=20
> > 	perhaps even the largest single obstacle today.  =20
>=20
> I always find cvs difficult to use, why not put a wiki website for the=20
> library code  where everyone could *easily* contribute.
> There needs some control, but simply not allowing a user to add some code
> that does not compile can do the tricks.

NO CODE WITHOUT DOCUMENTATION.

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