On Mar 15, 6:22 pm, Jeff Wheeler <wheel...@illinois.edu> wrote: > Did you happen to see the yi-contrib package on github? I'd also like > a simpler core yi, and had started to remove a few things to that > repo.
I saw it, and I like the general idea. I wonder though if it would be simpler to have more focused packages, like yi-gtk and yi-cocoa, at least for the things that can't run at the same time. > I'd like to remove the GUIs from core as well, but it bothers me that > vty is not supported on Windows. I'm not sure what to do here. > > (By the way, is there any good reason to enable testing by default? > You did that in your repo. You might want to check out 'make test' and > 'make run-inplace', too.) I like to make and use things that are well-tested. Is there a penalty for enabling it, other than compile time? > > Overall, I'm with you all the way. Definitely want to go this way. > Thanks for working on Yi. Sure, it's a fun project. Glad to be involved. Issac > > -Jeff > > (Sorry for top-posting . . .) > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Issac Trotts <issac.videos...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > I really like the idea of yi, and the execution seems good overall. > > The down side for me as a Haskell beginner is that both the code and > > the build setup are more complex than I can handle at this point. It > > has already taken me in the neighborhood of 15 hours for a recent > > attempt to install it on one of the boxes I use. In reaction, my plan > > is to make a version of yi that is easier to install and hack for > > beginners like me. I got started by removing the dependencies on GTK > > and Cocoa, and I will probably remove the dynamic Haskell config stuff > > until I can come up with a solution that doesn't confuse me as much. I > > hope someone else finds the fork useful. Please feel free to cherry > > pick any changes you like, and report issues as you find them (https:// > > github.com/ijt/yi/issues). > > > Regards, > > Issac > > > -- > > Yi development mailing list > > yi-devel@googlegroups.com > >http://groups.google.com/group/yi-devel > > -- > Jeff Wheeler > > Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering > University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -- Yi development mailing list yi-devel@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/yi-devel
