[Agda] Maintenance status of Agda dependencies

[Andreas Abel]

Hi Joachim,

thanks for your work on packaging Agda!

'boxes' is used for debug-printing tables and matrices.  It itself only 
depends on 'split' which is also by Brent Yorgey and actually maintained 
well (it seems).  Due to the good reputation of Brent, I had no scruples 
using it.

Are there any concrete problems with 'boxes'?  Or any difficulties 
packaging it?

Cheers,
Andreas

On 26.07.2014 15:08, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I’m still working on packaging Agda 2.4 for Debian. It has a few new
> dependencies, among them "boxes". But it seems that boxes is not an
> actively developed library:
>
> https://github.com/Eelis/boxes/issues/4#issuecomment-50233208
>
>
> Are the Agda developers are going to care about such dependencies?
>
> In general I’d advise to be selective in what you depend on. Hackage is
> a code dump, and not everything there has the stability and maintenance
> status that a high-profile package like Agda should demand.
>
> It would also make downstream packager’s work easier.
>
> Greetings,
> Joachim
>
>
>
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