Duncan Coutts wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 15:32 -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > Basically for each package we have an optional suggested version > constraint. This would be used in the hackage website to direct people
That would solve the problem nicely, I think. Do you have an ETA for this feature? > to the 'current' version but most importantly it'd be used by > cabal-install and other cabal -> native package conversion tools. It > wold be editable on the hackage website by the package author/maintainer > and probably other people with the role of managing the hackage > collection. > > Cases like HaXml-1.13 -> 1.19 (or a future stable version) or old-time > -> time are also things that the platform might be able to help with in > future by managing the transition in a more coherent way rather than > what we have now where the transition is rather hap-hazard with half > using one and half the other. > > Duncan > > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
