2009/11/14 Felipe Lessa
Probably adding markers to the comment area every time a new version is added is also a nice idea because a problem in the comment are may be corrected. The marker would serve as a visual aid that the comment may be outdated.
It would be nice if you could see a changelog from a package's 'start' page on the Hackage website. Otherwise, don't Roel van Dijk's reverse dependencies give some of the information - i.e. the 'social proof' that a package is used and useful? http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2009-October/067765.html http://bifunctor.homelinux.net/~roel/hackage/packages/hackage.html As Hackage already has Haddock docs and source-code view, you can easily scan a project to see if you like the code. Plus, the project's Hackage start page tracks versions so you can judge the maintained status of a project (some great packages 'just work' of course and haven't needed updating e.g. wl-pprint). As the Hackage server builds projects, you can tell to some degree that a project works or not (include the usual caveats for Windows and Mac users at this juncture)... Slighty of topic - how does a package author remove or at mark least deprecated their own package? Best wishes Stephen