On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Rogan Creswick
I think the index tarball has all the info you need, and would be faster to retrieve / process, if you or anyone else needs to get the .cabal files again:
http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/00-index.tar.gz (2.2mb)
Looking at it, the index tarball contains the .cabal files for all versions known to Hackage, which isn't necessarily the interesting set of cabal files - I'm usually more interested in just the cabal files of the latest version of every package. No doubt there's a scripting solution (loop over the untarred directory of packages, and take the lexically last cabal file?), but it was easier to just exploit cabal fetch's behavior of fetching only the latest version and work with those tarballs. -- gwern http://www.gwern.net