dave:
Actually, it just got trivial:
$ diffcabal old-platform.cabal haskell-platform.cabal Cabal 1.8.0.2 -> 1.8.0.6 QuickCheck 2.1.0.3 -> 2.1.1.1
[etc.]
Okay, so where do I go to find out the difference between, say, QuickCheck 2.1.0.3 and 2.1.1.1?
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Currently, the way to do this is: * Visit: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/QuickCheck-2.1.1.1 * Visit: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/QuickCheck-2.1.0.3 And note any differences in the documentation. Hackage doesn't yet provide support for changelogs. However, it does provide support for repository links, from which we can construct a changelog. That's right: you have to read each repo to get the full changelog, unless the author has been nice to add it to the .cabal file. I think what we need is: * Every HP package has to have a .cabal file with the source repository type and link. If we have the source repo and type, I can write a tool to extract the changelogs between each release automatically. -- Don E.g. * darcs * http://code.haskell.org/QuickCheck/
From here we can:
$ darcs get http://code.haskell.org/QuickCheck/ And running darcs changes: Thu Jun 17 07:52:28 PDT 2010 * Bump version number Thu Jun 17 06:53:22 PDT 2010 * Change of plan: look at GHC's version number instead of the * version of base when deciding whether to depend on the ghc * library Thu Jun 17 06:40:22 PDT 2010 * Added README to the source distribution Thu Jun 17 06:33:38 PDT 2010 * Updated the README Thu Jun 17 06:33:27 PDT 2010 * GHC 6.8 support Thu Jun 17 06:13:54 PDT 2010 * Added support for the new base library (I hope!) Thu Jun 17 02:59:14 PDT 2010 * Remove the pointless last field of the version number Thu Jun 17 02:32:46 PDT 2010 * Fix homepage link Wed Apr 28 08:04:02 PDT 2010 * Added my file of weird examples Thu Apr 22 08:37:11 PDT 2010 * Bump the version number Thu Apr 22 08:27:39 PDT 2010 * Don't force the shrink list too early Fri Jan 22 10:25:20 PST 2010 * Added an Arbitrary instance for complex numbers Tue Jan 12 07:34:00 PST 2010 * Changed the way that size increases Tue Jan 12 07:33:52 PST 2010 * Changed the cabal version number Tue Jan 12 06:47:25 PST 2010 * Skip shrinking on interrupt Tue Jan 12 06:47:04 PST 2010 * Added isInterrupt to Test.QuickCheck.Exception