On 23 July 2010 02:31, Daniel Fischer
On Thursday 22 July 2010 18:23:32, Stephen Tetley wrote:
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
Which doesn't help if the package doesn't build due to a missing C library, inconsistent dependencies (Hackage using two different versions of bytestring is a common problem I've come across), or is meant for a different (i.e. non-Linux) OS than the one Hackage is on.
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.
Because it could be a package that builds if you install the correct C library first, and it hasn't been updated for k months because there's no need to. -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com