#278: Default to non-versioned links in Hackage index --------------------------------+------------------------------------------- Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: low | Milestone: Component: HackageDB website | Version: 1.2.3.0 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: normal | Ghcversion: 6.8.2 Platform: | --------------------------------+------------------------------------------- When one visits http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pkg-list.html and looks for, say, Don's pcre-light, one sees: '# pcre-light library: A small, efficient and portable regex library for Perl 5 compatible regular expressions'. When one clicks upon it, one goes to the link http://hackage.haskell.org /cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/pcre-light-0.3.1 For me, this is not good. Suppose I'm editing a README or a wiki page, and I want to add a Hackage link: 'For the Hackage'd packages...' 'you can find pcre-light on Hackage at...'. In this case, what I want is a link to *all* the pcre-lights. As it happens, I discovered by accident that I can in fact do that sort of link: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage- scripts/package/pcre-light (and ever since, I've been manually editing the URL). This one will default to taking you to the 0.3.1 page, but if a more recent pcre-light is uploaded, it'll then take you to it instead (I believe). This makes perfect sense in the most common use case. Yes, people will want to link to a specific version sometimes, but to draw an analogy: if I tell you to go read up on Catamorphisms on Wikipedia, and I want to copy-paste the URL, is it better for Wikipedia to send me to https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Catamorphism - or https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/index.php?title=Catamorphism&oldid=211473795 ? -- gwern -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/278 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects