michaelt_

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by michaelt_ 10y ago
I won't bother to look it up, since it's not important and we probably agree on basically everything, but there were in my memory quite a few tempests in teapots about this sort of thing. It wasn't that there were other worki
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by michaelt_ 10y ago
It was almost entirely quotations from you, I guess you can't remember them.
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by michaelt_ 10y ago
www.haskell.org didn't used to take for granted that ghc is 'the' official haskell implementation. If you look at https://web.archive.org/web/20090129200859/http://haskell.or... which imme
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by michaelt_ 10y ago
You said, > The people involved have been the ones artificially creating the problem by refusing to follow established community standards (the package versioning policy) and > The tool does not fix real problems. It avoids a real pr
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by michaelt_ 10y ago
That wasn't your argument at all. I know and constantly affirmed that many people do and have removed upper bounds, and that I myself oppose it. Your 'argument' is the absurd falsification that this practice was introduced to
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by michaelt_ 10y ago
It's not empty of content, it is devastating to your argument. Check out the upper bounds among these packages http://hackage.haskell.org/user/BryanOSullivan e.g. http://hackage.haskell.org/packa
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by michaelt_ 10y ago
It's clear that you weren't around then and don't have the historical knowledge necessary to have a view about this. This isn't stopping you from spreading absurd libels.
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by michaelt_ 10y ago
The question is historical. I think you can't have been making your immense industrial build in the years immediately preceding `Wed Aug 15 14:54:44 UTC 2012` when `yesod` signed on to Brian O'Sullivan's plan of omitting uppe
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by michaelt_ 10y ago
You keep repeating the claim that `stack` exists in order to solve a problem deliberately created by the FPComplete crowd. This is frankly a really disturbing lie that has nothing to do with reality or the actual order of events. The theory
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by michaelt_ 10y ago
This totally rewrites history. The idea of scrapping upper bounds was introduced by Brian O'Sullivan https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2012-August/... whereupon it was adopted by yesod as y