Haskell Platform proposal: Add case-insensitive

Ben Millwood haskell at benmachine.co.uk
Sat Jan 26 20:38:44 GMT 2013


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take this as a cue to faff with my mail client settings, and in the 
meanwhile apologise to Gregory and Bas for the duplication; please do 
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On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 03:00:58PM -0500, Gregory Collins wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>First: Bas, would you support making case-insensitive a Haskell platform
>package?
>
>Assuming you say yes, I'd like to propose it for inclusion in the Haskell
>platform. The wiki page for this proposal is here:
>
>    http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/Proposals/case-insensitive
>
>And the case-insensitive package can be found on Hackage:
>
>    http://hackage.haskell.org/package/case-insensitive
>
>If Bas is not willing to have case-insensitive be a platform package I will
>rescind the proposal.

One thing I would regard as nice-to-have and worth mentioning while we 
have the review process here: a ChangeLog with (at least) the API 
changes to each version documented. When I'm creating a package and I 
want to set version bounds correctly, I often find that the lack of a 
nice, concise changelog makes this process a lot longer and more tedious 
than it need be.

I don't think I'd regard this as essential or even particularly 
important, but it's something I'd like to see more widespread in Haskell 
packages.



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