[Haskell-cafe] where to put general-purpose utility functions

Mike Burns mike at mike-burns.com
Sat Jan 21 21:25:41 CET 2012


On 2012-01-21 16.20.25 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> My problem now is that as I start new projects, I want to have my haskell
> utility functions available, and copying them around is not ideal. So, put
> them on hackage. But where, exactly?

Instead of putting all of them in one package, how about you group them
into multiple relevant packages. That way we can search for them more
easily, have smaller, more meaningful imports, and so on. Sometimes they
may make sense as pull requests against other packages, instead.



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