Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
Andrew Coppin <andrewcop...@btinternet.com> writes:
(Unless you're suggesting that I should try to actually *fix* these
things. The way I figure it, if an army of developers who are already
experts on the subject haven't been able to fix it yet, it must be
extremely hard, and so there's no way *I* can fix it.)
Or maybe they have other things to do (e.g. Duncan is working, finishing
off his PhD thesis and answering queries like this; when do you expect
him to get any hacking done? :p).
I wonder... How many people are actually working on Cabal?
When I first started using Haskell, I got the impression that there were
hundreds, maybe even thousands, of developers working on GHC. (After
all, how else could you write such a huge codebase in less than two
centuries?) But now it appears the number of active developers is nearer
to 3. This is obviously a jaw-droppingly tiny number of people to be
working on such a gigantic piece of software. If it's really true, it's
amazing anything ever gets done at all!
So now I wonder about Darcs, Cabal, Haddock, Hackage, and all those
other big projects. Do they really have a bazillion people working on
them? Or is it just two blokes in their spare time? (And, more
importantly, how do you find out?)
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