Re: [Haskell-cafe] Parsec in Haskell platform

On 24/10/2010 11:10 AM, Johan Tibell wrote:

On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Andrew Coppin wrote:

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It would be nice to have a page that lists everything included in every HP release, together with their version numbers. (So that, e.g., I can see at a glance what version of GHC, Haddock or cabal-install is in HP-2009.1.0.0.) All this information must exist somewhere, it's just not easily viewable on the web. http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/changelog.html

There's a Cabal file somewhere specifying all the package in the platform (including binaries like Happy.)

I'm pretty sure there used to be a link to the .cabal file somewhere, but now I can't seem to find it. Instead, I had to navigate to the Unix download page, download the source tarball, untar it (non-trivial under Windows), and hunt around for the .cabal file. And *then* I can find out what's in [the current release of] HP. It would be nice if there was a table on the website somewhere that I could just glance at to get the same information. [Also, regarding the page linked above... Who the hell uses <strong> for section heading?! Why wou-- oh, wait. It's Pandoc? I guess that also explains why we have ASCII-art arrows ["->"] rather than real arrows ["→"]. And presumably this stuff is written by hand, becuase GHC is missing an arrow...]