Haskell platform proposal: the async package

[Conrad Parker]

On 14 June 2012 03:39, Bardur Arantsson <spam at scientician.net> wrote:
> On 06/13/2012 02:56 PM, Simon Marlow wrote:
>> I am making a formal proposal to have the async package included in the
>> Haskell Platform:
>>
>>   http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/Proposals/async
>>
>> See the wiki paage for details, and a list of open issues for discussion.
>>
>> I just uploaded the async package itself to Hackage:
>>
>>   http://hackage.haskell.org/package/async-2.0.0.0
>>
>> documentation isn't there yet, so I've uploaded it here:
>>
>>   http://community.haskell.org/~simonmar/async/
>>
>> I have set the deadline to 13 August 2012 (2 months' time), with
>> comments due by 13 July 2012 (one month).  There's plenty of time before
>> the next platform release anyway (scheduled for 12 November 2012).
>>
>>
>
> -0.
>
> AFAIUI the HP is for battle-tested code and libraries where you can just
> say "here, use this!" IMO async doesn't pass this test since it hasn't
> seen any real use yet.

sounds like a challenge for us all to battle-test it over the next month :)

Conrad.