remove rematch dependency or take over rematch?

[davidsd]

Currently, I cannot add the following packages to stackage because they depend on rematch (which is not on stackage):

• distributed-process-systest
• distributed-process-extras
• distributed-process-async
• distributed-process-client-server
• distributed-process-supervisor
• distributed-process-execution

The rematch package was last updated in 2013 and does not appear to have a repo online anywhere. It is a very simple testing framework with only a couple hundred lines of code. We could:

• Try to contact the owner of rematch and either
  • Get him to add it to stackage, or
  • Transfer maintainership to us (which perhaps means including it in this repo), or
• Replace the dependency on rematch with a more widely used testing framework.

Thoughts?

[LaurentRDC]

I'm partial to removing the dependency on rematch, rather than taking it over.

I'm happy to create a patch. I can probably get this done in the next few days.

[davidsd]

Great!

[LaurentRDC]

New versions of packages have been released:

• distributed-process-async-0.2.9
• distributed-process-client-server-0.2.7.0
• distributed-process-execution-0.1.4.0
• distributed-process-extras-0.3.7
• distributed-process-supervisor-0.2.3
• distributed-process-systest-0.4.0