Project and maintenance status

[fendor]

@michaelpj showed me this repo, and it looks great!

You provide a nice interface for hackage and hoogle which many users would benefit from. I would like to promote this repo in https://github.com/haskell/vscode-haskell as a replacement for the recently removed Hoogle search feature https://github.com/haskell/vscode-haskell/issues/897.

This raises the question, is this repo still maintained and actively being developed?

I am happy to assist with maintenance, especially updating the repo to have up-to-date dependencies, linter and CI.

[visortelle]

@fendor thanks for the good words!

The project hasn't been actively maintained for about a year. It works and doesn't require much attention. The only thing I do is pay a few bucks for Vercel to keep the proxy up and running.

I can add you as a repo maintainer, and you can do all the maintenance actions you mentioned.

If you have some specific features in mind you'd like to see, you can prepare a list of them. Then we can think about how to better implement them.

I'm ready to continue working on it if it is really useful for some users.

[visortelle]

@fendor I added you as the repo maintainer. https://github.com/haskell-spotlight/haskell-spotlight/invitations

[fendor]

Thank you very much! Looking forward to the collaboration.

I don't have any new features in mind, currently, but maybe we will find some exciting features this project is missing in the future. I am using haskell-spotlight now in my everyday programming, and will raise issues if I encounter anything!

[azuzunaga]

Hey there, I'm trying to get this going locally, but @haskell-spotlight/react-lib does not seem to exist anymore. I also tried @hackage-ui/react-lib just in case, but it also 404s. Any ideas of what could be going on?

[visortelle]

Hi @azuzunaga. Try this: https://github.com/haskell-spotlight/haskell-spotlight/blob/main/vscode-extension/Makefile#L10

[ulidtko]

Hi @visortelle @fendor — so is the extension currently installable from the marketplace? Or is it just me. Can you please check?

I'm trying ext install visortelle.haskell-spotlight from the command palette — makes nothing happen. Search from the Extensions tab also yields nothing:

I'm using VSCodium version 1.87.2 — and usually, it makes no difference to most extensions if that's VSCode proper that runs them, or the fork. I can search for, find, and install without issue many other extensions in VSCodium.

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BTW: great to see this surviving over time, being maintained and in good shape. Just in case: Richard Eisenberg had made haskell-spotlight "famous" (at least for me it was news) in his Haskell videos on the Tweag channel, FWIW.

[ulidtko]

Whoops, nevermind... It's apparently an issue in VSCodium; managed to install it from the .vsix file. Works great!

[visortelle]

@ulidtko thanks! I saw some of Richard's videos where he used Haskell Spotlight. I'm glad this is useful to someone 😄