Package take over: OneTuple

[davean]

I ran into this issue in the taffybar built plan also and had to fix it
locally since I didn't realize it was abandoned. So this isn't a fully
localized issue.

On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 9:14 AM, Oleg Grenrus <oleg.grenrus at iki.fi> wrote:

> my Chart + diagrams usage depends on SVGFonts [1], which depend on tuple
> [2] which depend on OneTuple.
>
> So if SVGFonts could drop a dependency on `tuple`, that would solve my
> usage problem too. CC:ing SVGFonts maintainers.
> In fact, dropping the dependency is easy in this case:
> https://github.com/diagrams/SVGFonts/pull/26
>
> OTOH, Only's description says
>
> NOTE: There is also the OneTuple package which by using a boxed
> data-type provides a 1-tuple type which has laziness properties which
> are more faithful to the ones of Haskell's native tuples; whereas the
> primary purpose of Only is to provide the traditionally so named
> type-wrapper for attaching typeclass instances.
>
> So there's still some value in keeping OneTuple alive.
>
> [1]: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/OneTuple
> [2]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/tuple
>
> On 13.04.2018 15:38, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
> > On 13 April 2018 at 22:28, Oleg Grenrus <oleg.grenrus at iki.fi> wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I tried to contact John Dorsey who is the sole maintainer of OneTuple
> >> [1], but the stated email address (haskell at colquitt.org) bounces back.
> >>
> >> The last version of  OneTuple was uploaded "by JohnDorsey at Tue Mar 24
> >> 17:35:51 UTC 2009" - 9 years ago. OneTuple was working great so far, but
> >> GHC-8.4.1 / base-4.11 introduced breaking change, which affects
> >> OneTuple too: Semigroup is now a superclass of Monoid. Therefore none of
> >> OneTuple versions is GHC-8.4.1/base-4.11 compatible.
> >>
> >> I'm a Hackage Trustee [1] and also a user of OneTuple package (though
> >> not direct - it's in the transitive closure of Chart + diagrams), so I'd
> >> like to see GHC-8.4 compatible OneTuple version soon.
> > Would it be worth trying to consolidate similar data structures and
> > have Chart + diagrams migrate to Only [1] (which is up to date)?
> >
> > [1]: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/Only
> >
> >> The required changes are very small, see
> >> https://github.com/phadej/OneTuple/pull/1 or more precisely this exact
> >> commit:
> >> https://github.com/phadej/OneTuple/pull/1/commits/
> 1dbc4d3186f707034953e131995c590eb50cd9af
> >>
> >> I'd like to become (co-)maintainer of OneTuple. I have no other plans
> >> than to keep it compiling with recent versions of GHC. Maybe I'll add
> >> NFData (from `deepseq`) instance though.
> >>
> >> Best Regards, Oleg Grenrus
> >>
> >>
> >> [1]:  https://hackage.haskell.org/package/OneTuple
> >>
> >>
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