ketil:
> On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 10:30 +1000, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
>
> > Another idea I've been pondering is allowing people to add links to
> > documentation for libraries
>
> My main worry about Hackage is that it is often hard to tell the current
> status of packages - it could easily develop into a huge list of mostly
> dead projects.
>
> The current deliverables seem to consist of a tar file and a package
> description, neither of them
> accurately dated.
Yes, I'd like uploader dates/names too. Something like:
xmonad-0.3 - July 2007
> I'd like to see:
> links to project home pages,
That's already provided via the 'homepage: ' field, see, e.g.
http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/xmonad
> darcs (devel) repositories,
yes, I'd support a 'repository: ' field.
> email address of maintainers.
handled by the 'maintainer: ' field
> I'd also like browsable README and ChangeLog or similar. And what about a
> darcs-graph plot?
a link to the README might be good. If there was a 'repository'
field, we could automatically compute the darcs-graph, a la,
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/images/commits/community/
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