[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell project proposals reddit

[Jeff Heard]

I'm working on this now.  R-Tree, not Oct-tree, but it'll be there
soon.  Also working on GDAL/OGR bindings.

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 4:26 AM, Neal Alexander <wqeqweuqy at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Don Stewart wrote:
>>
>> I'd like to echo Jason's remarks earlier.
>>
>>    http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell_proposals/
>>
>> We've tried for a couple of years now to efficiently track 'wanted
>> libraries' for the community, but never with much success.
>>
>> In particular, two approaches have been tried:
>>
>>    * a wiki page
>>    * the 200{6,7,8} summer of code trac
>>
>> neither proved workable long term, likely because no one knew about
>> them, they're harder to contribute to and other factors.
>>
>> Now I know there's a lot of spare Haskell capacity in this community.
>> 3000 mailing list readers, but only 70 new libraries a week being
>> uploaded to Hackage --- that's not how we take over the world!
>>
>> So this is your chance to contribute:
>>
>>    * propose new libraries, and explain why you'd want them
>>    * vote on things you'd like to see
>>    * pick up tasks that sound interesting
>>
>> Let's try to make this work!
>>
>> -- Don
>
> A library for spatial data structures would be nice (Octree etc).
>
>
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