On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 12:46:21PM +0100, Sven Panne wrote:
I think a file containing lines like
core base ??? core Cabal ??? extra OpenGL ??? extra http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/darcs/polyparse ??? ...
might do the trick, with the first column describing the status of the package and the second column the place to get the bleeding edge version of it (non-http: repositories can be calculated via the repository for hugs itself, see the darcs-all script for GHC, nhc98 lacks this feature). The tricky part is the third column, describing the released version to use for release builds. I guess we should use hackage somehow, but currently I fail to see how... :-( Any suggestions?
Package name+version determines the URL of the tarball stored in HackageDB, e.g. http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/OpenGL/OpenGL-2.1.tar.gz and we can just assume that all packages of interest are there.