On 22 March 2011 17:42, Frank Murphy
I was poking around the source for cabal-install while investigating a (hopeful) GSoC product. One thing seems a little odd to me: is there a reason that, for example, getAvailablePackages isn't in a separate library? Or is similar functionality in a different package than Cabal already and I just haven't found it (doing a search for "cabal" on Hackage didn't appear to turn up anything)? For context, I'm trying to build a graph of install dependencies for an (uninstalled) package.
It'd be great to split a hackage client library out of cabal-install. Its certainly been on my (very long) TODO list, and there might be a ticket for it. It might make a good part of a GSoC project. In addition to clients that gather statistics, it'd be useful for automated "build bot" type clients. Duncan