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10y ago
> Would it be possible to do this more like GNU configure does? The software specifies what it needs, and the system looks for a version that works. How about check the Haskell code automatically to see what functions it uses? This gets
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10y ago
> That said, I do not want trustees to fix my stuff. As soon as you upload stuff to Hackage, it enters the work-queue for Hackage Trustees. That's because the Hackage Trustees' mission is to make sure that Hackage remains in a
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hvr_
10y ago
> Using someone else's curation winds up being much less work for me than using a solver, so that's what I do. :-( So basically, you value your time more than the time of us Hackage Trustees, who now have to fix the mess you&#x
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10y ago
> It just doesn't work well, and the maintainer / hackage trustee overhead is too damn high. The trustee overhead is only too damn high if people start leaving off upper bounds more frequently. We're tweaking and adding fe
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10y ago
> See, for instance, the following from someone with no connection to FP Complete that I'm aware of You may be interested to know that Carter (the guy you're quoting) knows better today, and has even become a Hackage Trustee wh