[Python-ideas] More "ensure*" packages

[Rustom Mody]

On Monday, August 17, 2015 at 5:57:48 AM UTC+5:30, Stephen J. Turnbull 
wrote:
>
> Donald Stufft writes: 
>
>  > One possible thing to look at for prior art, is what Haskell 
>  > does. 
>
> I haven't done Darcs in anger for several years but I still follow 
> their mailing lists, and it seems like the GHC people are happy 
> breaking the world for Darcs every 6 months.  Darcs is a relatively 
> old member of the GHC world having many internal components that since 
> have be superseded by "platform" modules, and apparently the style of 
> much of the core code is considered idiosyncratic, so it may be an 
> unusual case.  Still, it doesn't sound to me like Haskell provides 
> anything like the stability promises that Python makes for the 
> language and the stdlib. 
>
>  Thats an interesting point to bring up.
Yes darcs is an old member of ghc world
And yes Haskell provides poor stability guarantees compared to Python
And since these two – stable language vs research language – pull in 
opposite ways the inevitable happened:
ghc junked darcs for git for its own development :-)
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