Back in April, I announced plans for the future of School of Haskell and
FP Haskell Center. We're now half a year later, and it's time
to start moving ahead with those plans. The summary is:
- FP Haskell Center will be retired by the end of the year,
please migrate your projects now.
- School of Haskell will be transitioned to its own domain name,
schoolofhaskell.com,
with hopefully no interruption in service.
Migrating
projects from FP Haskell Center
In order to migrate your projects, please:
- Open your project on fpcomplete.com
- Select the Git menu from the top bar
- To get a tarball with all of your sources, choose "Source
dist"
- To retain your full project history, push to an external Git
repository (such as on Github or Bitbucket)
As readers of this blog are likely familiar already, FP Complete
and the Commercial Haskell
group have been putting a lot of effort into the Stack build
tool for easily and reliably building Haskell code. We
recommend migrating your project to Stack.
School of Haskell
We have three milestones along the path to our new, open sourced
School of Haskell:
- Release ide-backend - the core
engine powering School of Haskell - as open source. We completed this process in
March, and ide-backend has continued as a successful open
source project since then.
- Create a School of Haskell API service, allowing arbitrary
websites to "activate" Haskell code on their sites to create
interactive snippets for their users. The open source
schoolofhaskell repository is mostly feature-complete, and we
are currently making refinements before launching the service.
- Extract the School of Haskell HTML display and edit code to its
own project and host on schoolofhaskell.com. At that point, users
will be able to view and edit their content on schoolofhaskell.com
instead.
Once all three steps are complete, we will begin redirecting
users from fpcomplete.com to schoolofhaskell.com.
Timeline
We expect the School of Haskell changes to be completed by the
end of October. We will be sharing more information about this
process as it unfolds, and once the new deployment is available,
will welcome contributions to improve the School of Haskell. We
also look forward to seeing how others are able to take advantage
of the new service API to extend their own websites.
For FP Haskell Center: we will be shutting down the service
completely at the end of 2015. We will soon deploy changes to
provide a warning when accessing FP Haskell Center about the
impending shutdown. Once the service is shut down, your data
will be inaccessible. Please ensure that you have backed up any
data and code you wish to retain.
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