On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 18:07 +0000, Claus Reinke wrote:
having lots of packages is no good unless they work on your platform, and being explicit about which platforms a package does not (currently, for lack of porting, or ever, for hardwired dependencies) work is the first step toward improving the situation.
Yes.
i'd much rather have hackage tell me which packages are usable with my platform (build-reports verifying .cabal file accuracy), than tell me how many people on other platforms are using those packages without caring about portability to other platforms!-)
Absolutely, I'd like to see this too. My proposal is along those lines, that we use cabal-install to gather test feedback and that hackage should collect and summarise that data. It's not trivial however, it needs quite a lot of infrastructure. I opened a bug on it the other day: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/184 Duncan