cvs commit: ports/archivers/hs-zip-archive Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/devel/hs-binary Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/devel/hs-darcs/files patch-Setup.lhs patch-darcs.cabal ports/devel/hs-darcs Makefile distinfo pkg-d

Gabor PALI pgj at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jun 2 15:43:11 UTC 2010


On 06/02/10 17:14, Dmitry Marakasov wrote:
> To find darcs, user should search for darcs, period.
>   

Understood.


> Probably, needs checking. Actually the other ports you've mentioned in
> another mail (p5-Parde et al) should probably be fixed to.
>   

Actually they were Python ports, and they really need a lot of fixing. 
I have just wanted to point out that your references will not help me,
because they are contradicting (and danfe@ agreed).


> I'll add that prefixes should be thought of as a mean to:
> - resolve name conflicts between bindings to a single lib for many
>   languages. I.e. this:
>   

My problem is not with cases similar to "curl".


> The priority of the last one is what we are arguing on - and I believe
> we should tolerate towards plain users - they are likely a wider
> audience, and they have less knowledge, thus it will be harder for them
> to find hs-darcs, than for developers to find [nonhs-]somehaskelllib.
>   

I got the message, thus I tried to split darcs since it is a tool for
developers and an end-user application.


Cheers,
:g



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