[Haskell] HaskellForge

Lemmih lemmih at gmail.com
Tue May 17 10:50:18 EDT 2005


On 5/13/05, Gour <haskell_list at atmarama.org> wrote:
> Dear Haskellers,
> 
> I'd like to suggest one idea which is going on in my mind for quite some
> time...
> 
> Recently the project where I am offering some help (gtk2hs) had to move
> part of its web site from SourceForge to haskell.org since SF site has
> some limits which we were not able to overcome.
> 
> So, why not form HaskellForge and thereby form powerful Haskell
> alliance, ie.  common site which can host many/most present Haskell
> projects offering appropriate web & other (eg. darcs) services?
> 
> If we take a look on new HCAR, we can see that many Haskell projects are
> scattered all around, so it would be nice to have them on one place.
> 
> Ruby (which is not so long around, at least in the Western part) has
> RubyForge site which at the moment hosts 653 projects with 2159
> registered users.
> 
> Then there is also, Ruby Application Archive (RAA) with 1190 projects.
> 
> Haskell community is a very friendly one and has lot of brain-power on
> disposal. Why not add some (more) organizational skills to make it even
> more friendlier place?
> 
> Any comment?

I'm currently working on Hackage[1] plus its integration with Cabal,
and extending it to include SourceForge-like features would definitely
be desirable. It is, however, a one-man project so don't hold your
breath.

-- 
Friendly,
  Lemmih

[1] http://haskell.galois.com/cgi-bin/hackage


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