Wolfgang Jeltsch
Would it be intended that every Haskell-related project is hosted under haskell.org? This might be not so nice. And it might be not so nice if most Haskell-related projects are hosted under haskell.org so that potential users might only look under haskell.org for projects and miss those that are hosted elsewhere.
Hackage[1] is designed to be the freshmeat and apt-get of the Haskell world. I have a simple plan for a darcsforge as well: If Cabal includes a darcs-repository field, developers will be able to upload their project.cabal file to Hackage or to a darcsforge server. That server will run darcs pull on the repositories once a night or so. The developers can include an index.html in their repo that points to a doc/ subdirectory, or is the entire docs and description for simple projects. That way a single site can host the equivalent of cvs and webspace for darcs. That site could do http://host/projectname urls for each project. This is roughly a darcs equivalent to RSS aggregators. It does require that developers have a publically accessible repo, but anyone can get space from geocities or angelfire for that. Advantages of this include: * easy indexing and searching of projects and sources * easy references to other darcs/cabal projects * host needs nearly zero admin effort, notably zero user accounts required. Disadvantages are: * no bug tracker * no mailing lists Though maybe those could have darcs backends also? Still, this simple darcsforge has an excellent effort to results ratio. I hope to have time to add this sort of thing to cabal and hackage soon. [1] http://www.haskell.org/hawiki/Hackage -- Shae Matijs Erisson - http://www.ScannedInAvian.com/ - Sockmonster once said: You could switch out the unicycles for badgers, and the game would be the same.