On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 14:47, Don Stewart
magnus:
I know there's a .cabal file for the latest version of HP somewhere, but I can't coerce Google into finding me a link that actually works. Furthermore, the following page:
http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/contents.html
does list all the contents, but to my big surprise it doesn't link to the specific versions of the packages for HP, instead it links to the latest version found on Hackage.
Would someone with the power to make changes on the HP pages *please* make it as easy as possible to find the *exact* specification of what HP contains? Please, pretty please with sugar on top.
No, a changelog entry (http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/changelog.html) is not very helpful (why the HP front page links to it I can't understand).
Going via the Haskell wiki (http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_Platform#What.27s_in_the_platform) to find a link to the .cabal (http://code.haskell.org/haskell-platform/haskell-platform.cabal) is not that user friendly. It's even worse that the latter link doesn't seem to work at all at the moment.
(The short irritated tone in this email accurately shows my desperation with the situation: I thought I would be able to find this information with only 5 minutes to spare before my next meeting.)
Currently, the versions are specified in the .cabal file. A script is used to generate the changelog page (diffcabal, iirc).
I'll generate a spec page from the .cabal file this week sometime.
Ah, excellent. Sorry for the rather rant-y email before. I've now been to the meeting and managed to calm down a bit :-)
P.S. better sent to the haskell-platform@ list
Yes, of course. I'm now trying to fix that by cross-posting, let's hope I won't get too many angry emails about that ;-) /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe