Re: nice new hackage urls

On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 14:17 +0200, Johan Tibell wrote:

Do people really concoct little text or xml files giving name -> url mappings? Is there some common standard format for doing that?

I don't know of a standard format. You could indeed use XML (or perhaps JSON). By letting the server specify its URL scheme (instead of relying on out-of-band knowledge about resource locations) it can be more flexible.

I was worried you might say that :-). If possible I'd rather not have to put and xml or json parser into cabal-install. Duncan