Reverse dependencies in Hackage

A few weeks ago I wrote a patch that adds reverse dependencies to hackage [1]. I have know hosted a small test hackage which demonstrates this feature. It can be found here: http://bifunctor.homelinux.net/~roel/hackage Browse to your favorite packages and find out how much other packages depend on them! I also noticed that work is underway to implement a new hackage-server [2] based on happstack. If people find this feature useful I could also write a patch against the hackage-server code base [3]. Regards, Roel van Dijk [1] - http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/576 [2] - http://sparky.haskell.org:8080/ [3] - http://code.haskell.org/hackage-server/

On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 21:30 +0200, Roel van Dijk wrote:
I also noticed that work is underway to implement a new hackage-server [2] based on happstack. If people find this feature useful I could also write a patch against the hackage-server code base [3].
That would be much appreciated. Duncan

http://bifunctor.homelinux.net/~roel/hackage
Browse to your favorite packages and find out how much other packages depend on them!
This is very cool! It will help package authors enormously, if/when they change the API of their library, to discover who to notify to ensure that there is as little consequent breakage as possible. Thanks Roel. Regards, Malcolm
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Duncan Coutts
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Malcolm Wallace
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Roel van Dijk