Eugene Kirpichov ha scritto:
Well, I thought about these 10's of emails too; probably hackage could send an email when a new broken build arrives but only if there were no 'unresolved' broken builds before this one; or probably an email at the first broken build and a weekly email reminding "you've got some unresolved broken builds".
As for missing C libraries: could cabal probably integrate with the native package manager (apt/rpm/..) and ask the user whether to invoke it to install these libraries in case they are missing?
I like the idea. An "external package" database, where for each "software" we have an Haskell name, with this name mapped to each specific package.
However, this is not a solution for Windows since there's no native package manager.
For windows an "Haskell external package" name can be mapped to an URL to a "well know" Windows installer.
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Manlio Perillo