#251: link to the latest version of a package tar file ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Reporter: ross@soi.city.ac.uk | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: HackageDB website | Version: 1.2.3.0 Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Difficulty: normal Ghcversion: 6.8.2 | Platform: ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Comment (by duncan): I'd tend to agree with Thomas that having a single link doesn't help automation since you do not know when it changes. The index of course does tell you when new versions are available and it tells you for every package in one download. One doesn't have to use cabal-install for this purpose. For example gentoo has a tool to compare a gentoo package repository with the hackage collection to list packages that are out of date. We wrote it in Haskell but something much simpler using bash + wget + tar + find would be fairly straightforward too I expect. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/251#comment:3 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects