Move to core

[natefaubion]

These are super useful, and we need some other things like get/set/add/delete via symbols now that we have RowCons.

/cc @paf31 @garyb

[natefaubion]

/cc @hdgarrood

[paf31]

I agree we should add something to core. So either:

• We could create something new using the usual template, set up Travis etc., and then maybe @doolse could add this work via PR, or
• @doolse could transfer this one, but we'd need a LICENSE first.

[natefaubion]

FWIW, the bower.json lists the license as "MIT", but I don't know if that qualifies :)

[hdgarrood]

That should definitely qualify imo. It's not some ad-hoc string, it's a clearly defined language for talking about licenses, namely SPDX. It was because of the existence of SPDX that we decided that purs publish should allow packages with no license file and instead check whether the license field was a valid SPDX expression.

[paf31]

I don't like to rely on bower.json or package.json for inferring the license, because they're often autogenerated, and the license files do usually say you must recreate the text of the license if you want to reproduce the work.

I don't mind this so much for hosting packages, when someone is doing the uploading anyway, but I do want the license to be explicit for core and contrib packages.

[hdgarrood]

Ah okay, that does make a lot of sense actually.

[doolse]

I'm happy with whatever you'd like to do. My job has taken me temporarily away from purescript unfortunately, so it might be better if I add one of you as a collaborator and you can do whatever you want to it. As far as the license, yeah MIT was just the default :), i'm happy with that or a similar one.

[paf31]

I'll create a repo called purescript-records in core with some other useful functions like get and set, and make it MIT-licensed. Then we can move these functions over in a PR.

Edit: actually, that won't work, I didn't realize this repo was registered in Bower already.

[paf31]

I could create purescript-record without the "s" in core.

[hdgarrood]

I think @doolse should be able to update the bower registry as the original register-er of purescript-records..? Not 100% sure of that though.

[garyb]

Yep, that's possible - or can remove it from the registry at least, and then re-register the other.

[coot]

Playing with RowList is wrote a delete function.

[doolse]

@paf31 I tried to de-register on bower but it was failing to log me in for some reason but apparently I can just request a change via the github issue on the bower/registry project if you want? or just go with purescript-record :)

[paf31]

Ok, I've created purescript/purescript-record. I'll make a PR to add some basic functionality, and please feel free to PR any additional functionality you think would be useful. Thanks!