Re: [PATCH 07/43] gnu: Add ghc-haskeline.

[ng0 <ng0@we.make.ritual.n0.is>]

Eric Bavier <ericbavier@openmailbox.org> writes:

> On Sun,  4 Sep 2016 16:17:06 +0000
> ng0 <ng0@we.make.ritual.n0.is> wrote:
>
>> * gnu/packages/haskell.scm (ghc-haskeline): New variable.
>> ---
>>  gnu/packages/haskell.scm | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)
>> 
>> diff --git a/gnu/packages/haskell.scm b/gnu/packages/haskell.scm
>> index f3d43c4..8c6aee0 100644
>> --- a/gnu/packages/haskell.scm
>> +++ b/gnu/packages/haskell.scm
>> @@ -6558,4 +6558,29 @@ via bindings to the curses library.  Terminfo allows POSIX systems
>>  to interact with a variety of terminals using a standard set of capabilities.")
>>      (license license:bsd-3)))
>>  
>> +(define-public ghc-haskeline
>> +  (package
>> +    (name "ghc-haskeline")
>> +    (version "0.7.2.3")
>> +    (source
>> +     (origin
>> +       (method url-fetch)
>> +       (uri (string-append
>> +             "https://hackage.haskell.org/package/haskeline/haskeline-"
>> +             version ".tar.gz"))
>> +       (sha256
>> +        (base32
>> +         "09wd6sxgn65xxpk7dhy1cg3ywlbk0ccqq7xylycwk4zazy3gjgkd"))))
>> +    (build-system haskell-build-system)
>> +    (inputs
>> +     `(("ghc-terminfo" ,ghc-terminfo)))
>> +    (home-page "https://github.com/judah/haskeline")
>> +    (synopsis "A command-line interface for user input, written in Haskell.")
>                   ^
> Could you run these packages through 'guix lint'?  It should warn about
> the "A" at the beginning of a synopsis.

Okay, thanks for spotting it.

>> +    (description
>> +     "Haskeline provides a user interface for line input in command-line
>> +programs.  This library is similar in purpose to readline, but since it
>> +is written in Haskell it is (hopefully) more easily used in other Haskell
>> +programs.")
>> +    (license license:bsd-3)))
>> +
>>  ;;; haskell.scm ends here
>
> While adding ghc packages in the past, I've tried to keep the packages
> alphabetically sorted.  I'm not sure whether there's concensus on doing
> that.  We have 'guix edit', but for catch-all modules like (gnu
> packages haskell) I think it's still nice to have some semblance of
> order. We added a plea message at the top of gnu/packages/python.scm;
> maybe we should add one to gnu/packages/haskell.scm.  What do others
> think?
>
> `~Eric

I find it time consuming to search for the place in a file the length of
perl.scm, haskell.scm, python.scm to fit in my packages.

I think for haskell this was not 100% sorted, for perl there's almost
A-Z sorting.

It's nice to have, but the more these files grow, the more time you
spend with correcting the commits where the A-Z plea message was
ignored or overlooked.
If all of them were sorted and it would be pointed out in
"Documentation > Contributing" I'd agree, but at the moment I won't fix
this patch series.

Usually for these long files I just do an "M-g g 80000" to jump to the
very end.
-- 
ng0
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