On 20 May 2011 12:46, Markus Läll
What's stopping it from being put on the official hackage? I use it quite a lot to find well established packages and/or example code, and am quite fond of it. But it is only visible when you know that this exists.
Poor timing. I wrote the patch when there was significant work being done for the new version of hackage [1]. So the feeling was that the current hackage (which is a bunch of cgi programs) would soon be replaced by the new hackage-server (based on happstack). I also stated in my initial announcement that I would look into writing a version of my reverse dependencies for the new server. I haven't done that yet. Since at least July of 2010 the new server has some support for reverse dependencies. Unfortunately hackage-server seems to have lost a bit of momentum. It is now almost 3 years old. Looking at "darcs show authors" I'd say there are about 4 main contributors, with the main author being Duncan Coutts. The last patches are from December 2010. I think the best solution is to get more people contributing to hackage-server. It is superior to the current hackage in many ways. 1 - http://code.haskell.org/hackage-server/