ketil:
On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 10:30 +1000, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
Another idea I've been pondering is allowing people to add links to documentation for libraries
My main worry about Hackage is that it is often hard to tell the current status of packages - it could easily develop into a huge list of mostly dead projects.
The current deliverables seem to consist of a tar file and a package description, neither of them accurately dated.
Yes, I'd like uploader dates/names too. Something like: xmonad-0.3 - July 2007
I'd like to see: links to project home pages,
That's already provided via the 'homepage: ' field, see, e.g. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/xmonad
darcs (devel) repositories,
yes, I'd support a 'repository: ' field.
email address of maintainers.
handled by the 'maintainer: ' field
I'd also like browsable README and ChangeLog or similar. And what about a darcs-graph plot?
a link to the README might be good. If there was a 'repository' field, we could automatically compute the darcs-graph, a la, http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/images/commits/community/ Who's our SoC hackage guy? To do list right here!