Status of this fork

[georgefst]

See what's left of Euterpea#52 for the history.

I really don't want to maintain this myself, not least because I don't currently actually have a use case for the library. But, in the short term, I think it's important that an up-to-date version is available somewhere. Euterpea is really cool, and I'm sure there are a lot of people who want to use it alongside all the recent improvements in GHC, Cabal and HLS (and when I finally pick my copy of HSoM back up, I'm sure I'll be one of them).

Of course, this fork being not on Hackage, it isn't trivial to use (and I'd really rather not upload to Hackage unless it looks like an upstream solution is unattainable). The easiest way, if using Cabal, is to add to a project's cabal.project:

source-repository-package
    type: git
    location: https://github.com/georgefst/Euterpea2
    tag: e4f0a23ac31c6565668282e3ca4487ddfca0fbff

For the record, while I don't remember the exact contents of the now-deleted messages on the old thread, I genuinely do not understand why they have been deleted (aside, maybe, from the final one, which alluded to the maintainer's lifestyle, but even that was not totally irrelevant, or indeed derogatory). I mention this only because the state of that thread might now imply to a new reader that there was a much more hostile discussion than the one I recall taking place.

[dschrempf]

Thank you so much for caring and brining the library up to date! This is really important to keep the project alive. It should be advertized more prominently that there is a maintained version.