Re: [Haskell-cafe] Experiences with cabal-install and Hackage

On Thursday 22 July 2010 18:23:32, Stephen Tetley wrote:

On 22 July 2010 16:56, Thomas DuBuisson wrote:

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The hackage build logs can be misleading - many system specific packages may or may not build on hackage because it just isn't the right OS.  Still other packages require particular C libraries that the hackage server doesn't have.  For these reasons the build reports will come from end developer systems (see linked blog).

Presumably you can only get false negatives - i.e. "correct" packages failing to build due to missing C libraries, or depending on Haskell libraries at different version numbers to the build server?

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Isak Hansen:

How about taking it one step further, actually "hiding" unmaintained packages after a grace period?

Hiding unmaintained libraries seems contrary to Hackage's spirit - if you want to depend on an unmaintained library why not volunteer to be the maintainer.

I think it was more meant to be fails to build and not updated for (>= k months) ==> move to packages/notshiny If it doesn't build and nobody seems to care about it anymore, why let it clutter the pkg-list, that's crowded enough even without zombies. Of course, new release that builds ==> back to pkg-list