On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 15:15 +0000, Ross Paterson wrote:
Björn Bringert suggested that the Hackage page for a package should include a link to the Darcs repo (if any, but who uses anything else?) and maybe some darcs integration such as changelogs and the like. To make this work, we'd need a URL-valued Darcs-Repository field in the package description.
I think this is a good idea. Can we get away with only allowing darcs? :-) Here's what gentoo has for its global overlay configuration file (a gentoo overlay is a tree of ebuild files usually managed in a version control system): <overlay type = "svn" src = "https://gentooscience.org/svn/overlay" contact = "sci@gentoo.org" status = "official" name = "science"> <overlay type = "rsync" src = "rsync://rsync.breakmygentoo.net/bmg-main/bmg-main" contact = "bugs.breakmygentoo.net" name = "break-my-gentoo-main"> <overlay type = "darcs" src = "http://www.haskell.org/~gentoo/gentoo-haskell/" contact = "haskell@gentoo.org" status = "official" name = "haskell"> <overlay type = "tar" src = "http://geki.ath.cx/OOo/openoffice.tar.bz2" contact = "h.mth@web.de" name = "openoffice-geki"> etc, you get the idea. So they have a 'type' field as well as a url for it. We could do the same and for the moment only implement stuff for darcs. How about: rcs-type: rcs-url: Hmm ok, not so good. Someone come up with something less cryptic :-) Duncan