On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 8:39 PM Andrew Hewus Fresh <and...@afresh1.com> wrote: > What's most important though is knowing what a Haskell port's Makefile > should look like. We also need an API that we can use to query for the > distfile name[1] and a way to figure out the dependencies, preferably > via some sort of API, but doing it by querying the package can also > work.
Stackage snapshots may be the best bet as they seem to have consistent versioned snapshots: https://www.stackage.org/lts-13.24 > The actual language specific bits should be relatively simple, mostly > just converting from the metadata we gather to the correct variables to > put into the Makefile. I spent some quality time with Haskell ports recently so I have partial knowledge. > I'm sure there will be some special problems to solve because of version > numbers or some other thing that nobody can agree on, but it looks like > https://hackage.haskell.org/api should work, although I can't figure out > how to get it to give my JSON, although it says it will. Something like this works for some APIs thought I didn't figure out enough to make me confident it is sufficient: $ curl -H'Accept: application/json' https://hackage.haskell.org/package/ACME/preferred; echo {"normal-version":["0.0.0.1","0.0.0.0"]} Let me see if I have enough gumption to wade back into Perl... Thanks Greg -- nest.cx is Gmail hosted, use PGP: https://pgp.key-server.io/0x0B1542BD8DF5A1B0 Fingerprint: 5E2B 2D0E 1E03 2046 BEC3 4D50 0B15 42BD 8DF5 A1B0
