On 19 July 2010 04:16, Don Stewart
Hackage doesn't yet provide support for changelogs. However, it does provide support for repository links, from which we can construct a changelog. That's right: you have to read each repo to get the full changelog, unless the author has been nice to add it to the .cabal file.
I think it would be nice if Cabal had (optional) readme and changelog (or just an overall generic documentation) field, so if a package had such a file then Hackage could show it.
I think what we need is:
* Every HP package has to have a .cabal file with the source repository type and link.
For FGL, I'm trying to track down a copy of the old repository that used to be on darcs.haskell.org. Once I've done that I can update it and then publish that in the new code.haskell.org repository.
If we have the source repo and type, I can write a tool to extract the changelogs between each release automatically.
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/change-monger ? However, an explicit "higher-order" Changelog is usually preferable IMHO as it can describe what's actually changed rather than "whoops, I missed another corner case in my previous patch". -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com