longterm goal

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+I'd like to move away from using yesod for the web app, for a number of
+reasons:
+
+* It's by far the largest use of TH in git-annex, and TH is of course very
+  painful for the android port, other builds like debian mips that don't
+  currently support TH, etc.
+* I think it's responsible for at least 50% of the executable size, and I
+  suspect a lot of that is unncessary bloat for parts of yesod that
+  git-annex doesn't really use.
+* Hamlet constantly annoys me by rejecting any file that contains tabs.
+  **Rage**
+* Hamlet contains code that's not really haskell, but looks a lot like it.
+  This is a continual frustration when dealing with the hamlet files.
+* I find that Hamlet does not lend itself to being refactored, everything
+  is essentially an IO action with side effects of generating html, so
+  can't really bring proper FP tools to bear.
+
+At the moment, servant seems like the nicest place to end up. Just as type
+safe as yesod afaik, and very lightweight and simple and rather awesome.
+
+As for the html generation, lucid seems like a good way to do it. Just as
+fast as hamlet, and pure haskell code.
+
+Game plan:
+
+1. Uploadd a yesod-lucid to hackage. (done)
+2. Get servant, lucid, maybe yesod-lucid, packaged in Debian
+3. Start converting individual yesod Handler Html to Handler LucidHtml.
+   This will ditch the hamlet. This is by far the most work, but it can be
+   done incrementally w/o breaking the build.
+4. Once all the hamlet is gone, remove the rest of the yesod stuff and
+   re-implement the routing etc with servant.