On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 12:18:25PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
For each such library, I need to be able to tell users where they can go to download the dependency.
But I'm having a lot of trouble finding canonical download locations. For instance, the homepage of regex-compat, according to http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/regex-compat/regex-compat.cabal, is http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazy-regex. But the software available for download there doesn't even provide Text.Regex.
Of course, just saying "download the latest version with darcs" isn't useful, either. People that want to use my package shouldn't have to have darcs, and they also shouldn't have to fight with broken development software.
You could direct them to http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/unstable/