On 8/6/07, Duncan Coutts
Cabal/Hackage is fantastically successful, despite the amount we grumble about it's shortcomings.
But this is fertile ground for hackers who enjoy cleaning things up and refactoring...
Certainly. How to recruit such people...
I might try and do a 5-min status report at AngloHaskell. "Cabal needs you" or something :-)
Some time ago Duncan and I briefly discussed a few things that I could do with Cabal. I forget exactly what they were now, but it had to do with getting Gtk2HS working better with it (or at all, even). I think I got sidetracked by school and other code I've been working on for Gtk2HS, so I never got around to it. I'm interested in helping you guys, but I suppose I should look at the Cabal code some more. One thing that Cabal seems to need is a flexible source code dependency resolution system. I think I'd like to hack something out in that area. Pete