stack VS pandoc

Ah, didn't run into this issue, as I don't use vscode.

Apparently there is some work being done to improve the stack <> hls experience, but I wouldn't know how it's going and when it's being delivered: https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/6154

this is it: # This file was automatically generated by 'stack init' # # Some commonly used options have been documented as comments in this file. # For advanced use and comprehensive documentation of the format, please see: # https://docs.haskellstack.org/en/stable/yaml\_configuration/ # Resolver to choose a 'specific' stackage snapshot or a compiler version. # A snapshot resolver dictates the compiler version and the set of packages # to be used for project dependencies. For example: # # resolver: lts-3.5 # resolver: nightly-2015-09-21 # resolver: ghc-7.10.2 # # The location of a snapshot can be provided as a file or url. Stack assumes # a snapshot provided as a file might change, whereas a url resource does not. # # resolver: ./custom-snapshot.yaml # resolver: https://example.com/snapshots/2018-01-01.yaml resolver: url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/commercialhaskell/stackage-snapshots/master/lts/20/23.yaml # User packages to be built. # Various formats can be used as shown in the example below. # # packages: # - some-directory # - https://example.com/foo/bar/baz-0.0.2.tar.gz # subdirs: # - auto-update # - wai packages: - xmonad - xmonad-contrib # Dependency packages to be pulled from upstream that are not in the resolver. # These entries can reference officially published versions as well as # forks / in-progress versions pinned to a git hash. For example: # # extra-deps: # - acme-missiles-0.3 # - git: https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack.git # commit: e7b331f14bcffb8367cd58fbfc8b40ec7642100a # # extra-deps: [] # Override default flag values for local packages and extra-deps # flags: {} # Extra package databases containing global packages # extra-package-dbs: [] # Control whether we use the GHC we find on the path # system-ghc: true # # Require a specific version of Stack, using version ranges # require-stack-version: -any # Default # require-stack-version: ">=2.11" # # Override the architecture used by Stack, especially useful on Windows # arch: i386 # arch: x86_64 # # Extra directories used by Stack for building # extra-include-dirs: [/path/to/dir] # extra-lib-dirs: [/path/to/dir] # # Allow a newer minor version of GHC than the snapshot specifies # compiler-check: newer-minor

Fix incorrect warning if allow-newer-deps are specified but allow-newer is false. See #6068.

You can download binaries for this pre-release from: Release rc/v2.11.0.1 (release candidate) · commercialhaskell/stack · GitHub .

Fair enough! Thanks for the suggestion, then. In fact, the non-Python language I develop most in (Haskell, with the Stack package manager) has exactly that behaviour as a default: new packages are installed to a sandboxed local directory, and it takes an explicit request to install something globally. (And even then, you can switch between different global "known good configurations" of package versions which work well together – a pretty handy feature.)

Opened a ticket on GitHub.

In YAML configuration files, the hackage-security key of the package-index key or the package-indices item can be omitted, and the Hackage Security configuration for the item will default to that for the official Hackage server. See #5870.

FYI this was solved in here: https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/5958

Yes, that is correct. Stack's allow-newer: true configuration has always actually meant 'ignore bounds'. However, the author of the allow-newer-deps development has in mind a further development that will introduce an actual ignore-bounds key with the same expressive syntax that is used by Cabal. This is discussed at Stack #5910.

My main authoring tool is then Emacs Markdown Mode (https://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/). For data entry, it comes with some bells and whistles similar to org-mode, like C-c C-l for inserting links etc.

I seldom export my notes for external usage, but if it is the case, I use lowdown (https://kristaps.bsd.lv/lowdown/) which also comes with some nice output targets (among the more unusual are Groff and Terminal). Of cource pandoc (https://pandoc.org/) does a very good job here, too.

This is one of those things that the ever-amazing pandoc (https://pandoc.org/) does very well, on top of supporting virtually every other document format.

Folks feel the same way about Markdown versus LaTeX: why use something significantly more complicated where a looser, human-readable grammar works better?

For any other situations, I use https://pandoc.org/, or, generate a Word doc scriptomatically.

pandoc toolchain pour builder une version confortable/imprimable en phase de travail (ePub, pdf, docx, html)

Congrats on the launch, I guess, but there are so many free options that I can't think of a situation where paying $0.25 per document would be justified...? Just to name a few:

Back in the days, I used to use XSL-FO [0] and it was okay. It was not very precise but it rarely if ever broke, and was perfectly integrated with an XML/XSLT solution. Yeah, this was a long time ago.

Last month I used html-to-pdfmake [1] and it's also not very precise and more fragile, but very efficient and fast.

Yet another approach would be to pro grammatically generate .rtf files (for example) and use Pandoc [2] to produce PDFs (I have not tried this in production but don't see why it wouldn't work).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSL_Formatting_Objects

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/html-to-pdfmake

[2] https://pandoc.org/

Others have mentioned static site generators. I like Hakyll [1] because it can tightly integrate with Pandoc [2] and allows you to develop custom solutions if your needs ever grow.

[1]: https://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/

[2]: https://pandoc.org/

Have you compared it with a conversion by pandoc (https://pandoc.org/)?

I have used it to kickstart a blogging project that I wish to come back to soon. The Lua inter-op for custom readers, writers and filters is great but I wish there was more editor integration and even perhaps an official IDE/editor with built-in debugging features (probably something already do-able with Emacs but I haven't checked). The only blocker for my project is no support for "ChunkedDoc" for Lua filters [1] which forces me to write more code and a complicated Makefile.

[1]: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/9061