On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 01:14 +0100, Henning Thielemann wrote:
Recently I wanted to refer to a Haskell package at Hackage in a paper and I thought it would be a good idea to automatically generate BibTeX entries for every uploaded package. I have attached a module that generates a BibTeX entry from the upload time and the package description. It will still need some fine tuning, e.g. LaTeX escapes for non-ASCII characters. I have pulled the hackage-scripts package to my machine and like to know where to add something - if the feature is wanted, at all. I expect that the BibTeX entry should be generated at upload time and should be mentioned in the main package page if it exists.
Fun :-) If you really want it included, can I suggest you add it to the new hackage-server implementation. On the assumption that generating the resource is relatively cheap, I suggest just generating it on demand rather than caching anything. In the new server the PackageDescription for each package is always kept in memory. So it looks like it would be very cheap. darcs get http://code.haskell.org/hackage-server/ Duncan