On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Ketil Malde <ke...@malde.org> wrote: > > I've rather recently started to use cabal-install to install packages > from Hackage. Unfortunately, so far many packages fail to install. I > try to email authors/maintainers, but when I check build logs on > Hackage, I discover that some of these packages have failed building for > some time. > > Wouldn't it make sense to provide automated notification of the package > author when a package fails to build? I certainly would like to know > about it, but of course, I never remember to check back to see. >
How about taking it one step further, actually "hiding" unmaintained packages after a grace period? Unless the user runs cabal with an --include-deprecated option, or something. Isak > -k > -- > If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
