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

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.) Johan

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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

I thought WinZip added tar and tar.gz several years ago? - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkzFmO4ACgkQIn7hlCsL25U2LQCfdJYOYskuvEGV161ng5ntHjDe L2EAnjDNpjrqriRnXHJmmL0gCnZ804D1 =BhVW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

On Monday 25 October 2010 16:51:13, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote:

On 10/25/10 10:49 , Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote:

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On 10/24/10 06:59 , Andrew Coppin wrote:

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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

I thought WinZip added tar and tar.gz several years ago?

Also, "cabal configure" gets you a nicely unpacked tree. (Hm, I thought there was a "cabal unpack" somewhere.)

There is: $ cabal unpack --help Usage: cabal unpack [FLAGS] or: cabal unpack [PACKAGES] Flags for unpack: -h --help Show this help text -v --verbose[=n] Control verbosity (n is 0--3, default verbosity level is 1) -d --destdir=PATH where to unpack the packages, defaults to the current directory.

Regardless, 7zip (LGPL) can do it. But you have to first inzip, and then untar as a seperate step.

This is pretty far off topic, but you can actually unpack it in a single run. If you use the GUI version of 7z (a.k.a. the 7zip File Manager) you can open the .tar.gz and it will list a single .tar file as its content. Double click that file and you can see/extract its contents. /J On 25 October 2010 22:58, Andrew Coppin wrote:

On 25/10/2010 03:49 PM, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote:

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On 10/24/10 06:59 , Andrew Coppin wrote:

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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

I thought WinZip added tar and tar.gz several years ago?

You know that WinZip actually costs money, right?

Regardless, 7zip (LGPL) can do it. But you have to first inzip, and then untar as a seperate step.

Regardless of that, cabal-install can download the correct URL and untar it for you. Assuming you happen to be sitting at a PC with Haskell tools on it at the moment you want to check this information out...

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Hi, Am Sonntag, den 24.10.2010, 15:56 +0200 schrieb Simon Hengel:

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It would be convenient to have a page which would list all the HP packages with their versions. The release page [2] only has a list of packages whose versions has changed since the last release, as I understood.

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.

Yes, I needed the same information recently. I ended up reading the Cabal file at [1]. A convenient way to see what packages are included in what version of the platform would still be very useful, though.

Until this is offered in an official position, this might be helpful if you ignore the Debian-related columns: http://people.debian.org/~nomeata/platform.html Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim Breitner e-Mail: mail@joachim-breitner.de Homepage: http://www.joachim-breitner.de ICQ#: 74513189 Jabber-ID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de

andrewcoppin:

On 24/10/2010 09:10 AM, Roman Cheplyaka wrote:

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It would be convenient to have a page which would list all the HP packages with their versions. The release page [2] only has a list of packages whose versions has changed since the last release, as I understood.

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://code.haskell.org/haskell-platform/haskell-platform.cabal