On Jan 15, 2007, at 16:54 , Simon Marlow wrote:
Ross Paterson wrote:
Björn Bringert suggested that the Hackage page for a package should include a link to the Darcs repo (if any, but who uses anything else?) and maybe some darcs integration such as changelogs and the like. To make this work, we'd need a URL-valued Darcs-Repository field in the package description.
Trac uses a syntax like 'VC:FILE' for the repo, eg. 'darcs:/home/ darcs/ghc'. Perhaps we could do the same, something like
source-repository: darcs:http://darcs.haskell.org/happy
or is that too many colons? :) The syntax of the thing after the 'darcs:' is entirely VC-dependent, of course.
I think that we may also need to be able to specify a directory inside a darcs repo, since many darcs repos contain multiple Cabal packages. For example, the Cabal repo contains Cabal, cabal-setup and cabal-install. I guess programs could just search in the repo for a .cabal file for the right package, but that means having to do a darcs get. Whether that's ok or not depends on what the field is used for I suppose. /Björn