Whither split base?

[Andrew Martin]

Here's an idea for this I had last night. It's narrowly scoped, but I think
it moves us a tiny bit in the right direction. We could move Text.Printf
out of base and into its own library. This doesn't really belong in base.
The interface it provides it somewhat opinionated, and it's not even
type-safe. The new library could be named `printf` and could live under the
haskell github organization. Any thoughts for or against?

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 7:18 PM Daniel Cartwright <chessai1996 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Ah! That's a cool point about backpack. I would like to volunteer to help
> with this.
>
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 7:13 PM Edward Kmett <ekmett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Development in this direction is an open process. The key would be
>> finding sufficient will amongst members of the community to make it happen.
>>
>> -Edward
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 7:09 PM Daniel Cartwright <chessai1996 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> interesting, makes sense. can anyone volunteer?
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 6:53 PM Carter Schonwald <
>>> carter.schonwald at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> its simple: trying to reduce the coupling / interdependency of
>>>> different pieces of base so they can literally be (at least internally)
>>>> structured as distinct packages / libraries
>>>> (so as to fascilitate better experimentation or support for exotic
>>>> platforms)
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 6:46 PM Daniel Cartwright <
>>>> chessai1996 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Could someone articulate on this "split base"? What does this mean
>>>>> exactly? Having one or more versions of officially supported 'base'-like
>>>>> libraries?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 6:17 PM Edward Kmett <ekmett at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> We had two different people join the CLC with the express wish of
>>>>>> working on it. Both of them seemed to recoil at the scale of the problem
>>>>>> after going deeper, and progress ground to a halt.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We _do_ have a few open slots on the committee though. I'm putting
>>>>>> out an open call for folks to join the committee today. Maybe someone
>>>>>> interested in diving into the problem might apply. =)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Edward
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 12:06 AM Carter Schonwald <
>>>>>> carter.schonwald at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I just remembered that it was one of the ongoing things the CLC was
>>>>>>> involved with, for a while.  Has there been recent action there ?
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