That would be cool. I wonder if reaching a Fail-Node means permadeath or not. "A big set of conflicts fell on your head. You are stumbling back down the stairs.." Meanwhile, I am just trying to make it less wordy ;-) Ciao, Martin On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 3:35 AM, Conrad Parker wrote:

On 13 June 2013 23:55, Martin Ruderer wrote:

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Hey all,

we are nearing the end of the "Students get to know mentors, read documentation, get up to speed to begin working on their projects"-Phase and I would like to tell you what I have done so far and how you can follow my progress in the future, if you like.

I have forked cabal at https://github.com/mr-/cabal and I have set up a little blog at http://cabal-summer.blogspot.de/ .

So far, I have written an IDE to navigate the dependency tree interactively. However the output is not very user-friendly yet. This I will focus on in the immediate future.

If you have any comments on what you would like to see done, or more concretely, have suggestions for useful commands to walk the tree, I would be very grateful.

That's a pretty cool UI you've got there. However it's a bit wordy, perhaps you could draw the tree visually and allow the user to navigate it that way?

------ - Package boundary |....| ############ # Untraversed dependency |....| # # . A cabal file |.$..+######## # $ Some quantity of bugs |....| # ---+--- + A version choice ------ # |.....| | Package boundary # |.!...| ! A magic pragma # |.....| # |..@..| @ The user ---- # |.....| |..| #######+..D..| D A red dragon book |<.+### # |.....| < Stairs to a higher level dependency ---- # # |.?...| ? A magic script ###### -------

Conrad.