Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC 6.10.1 and cabal[-install]

On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 10:41 +1300, Daniel McAllansmith wrote:

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:27:36 Duncan Coutts wrote:

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It's even easier than that! Someone has done it already :-)

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/261

Thu Aug 28 16:55:16 CEST 2008 Chry Cheng * Marking packages deprecated Fixes ticket no. 261 as discussed in its annotations. Packages with "deprecated" "true" are excluded from the package list. Packages with "superseded by" tags provide links to their superseding packages in the package page.

Does "excluded from the package list" mean that deprecated packages won't show up on http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pkg-list.html ?

As I understand it, yes.

If so, how does one go about finding and downloading deprecated packages? Rely on the search function to find the package page? How do you get a comprehensive list of the deprecated packages that have existed?

At the moment I think it would not be easy. You'd have to compare the current index with the upload log to find the hidden pages.

Perhaps there should be a deprecated-pkg-list.html page. If being superseded implies deprecation this page is also where the superseded packages would go, with appropriate supersedes/superseded-by links between them.

Sounds sensible. Duncan