Re: [Haskell-cafe] Private packages on hackage

It's as much about search functionality, on - line documentation and a consistent location for the packages as it is about installing them. Alan On 02 Sep 2015 11:40 PM, "Tomas Carnecky" wrote:

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 7:50 AM Sean Leather wrote:

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On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 3:42 AM, Alan & Kim Zimmerman wrote:

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I had a chat with Duncan Coutts of Well-Typed about the possibility of an extension to hackage which would allow private packages to be uploaded and managed by hackage, for a fee.

The idea is that it operates in a similar fashion to GitHub, where public packages are free, but there is a monthly fee for hosting private packages. This would give commercial organisations wanting to get started with Haskell a simple way to host their packages, so that members of the organisation could see the private and public packages when logged in, and cabal install would work as expected with the superset.

Duncan is worried about the up-front effort required vs an uncertain return.

Personally I think that this could be a good way to fund the hackage infrastructure.

So the question is, apart from me, would anyone be interested in such a feature?

There are several of us a bit to the north of you, Alan, that would fully support this.

How about teaching cabal how to fetch packages directly from SCM? Organizations already have SCM systems set up, and the package metadata (.cabal file) is already in there.