Reviving strict-concurrency

[Gershom B]

Yitz — do you want to request maintainership of strict-concurrency so you can do the takeover yourself? There’s a standing policy for old dons libraries that he’s happy to give maintainership to people who want to step up :-) Just email admin at hackage.haskell.org and I think it can be done in a jif.

Cheers,
Gershom


On August 28, 2017 at 6:57:21 PM, Yitzchak Gale (gale at sefer.org) wrote:
> The base library does not provide strict variants for the basic concurrency
> primitives. Instead, the haddocks for Control.Concurrent.MVar recommend
> using Don Stewarts's strict-concurrency library:
>  
> https://hackage.haskell.org/package/strict-concurrency
>  
> But that library has not been buildable for years. The homepage seems
> no longer accessible, and there is no source repository link.
>  
> I created a github repo from the tarball for version 0.2.4.1 (the latest, from
> 2010), and then made the minor tweaks needed to get it build with modern
> GHC. The library provides no tests, so I have no idea if what I did still
> provides the advertised guarantees or even actually works. My repo is here:
>  
> https://github.com/ygale/strict-concurrency
>  
> Is the library still as critical as it used to be? Perhaps not in this age of
> async and STM, but to me it still makes sense to offer strict versions of
> these primitives. If so, then perhaps this small and simple library should be
> taken under the wing of libraries as maintainer.
>  
> In any case, could someone please at least apply my patch and upload to
> hackage, so that it will be buildable again?
>  
> I became aware of this because I was hoping to use vacuum for a complex
> debugging task, but vacuum also hasn't been buildable for several years due
> to its dependence on strict-concurrency. Whether vacuum will actually work
> after several years of neglect is a separate question.
>  
> Thanks,
> Yitz
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