10 Feb
2005
10 Feb
'05
3:33 p.m.
On 10 February 2005 12:54, Ross Paterson wrote:
I think we need an extra field Synopsis for a short summary of the package, possibly supplemented by the longer Description. This should make Hackage catalogues more readable, and could also be shown by an extended form of hc-pkg list.
(repeated) License and License-File should not be mutually exclusive. They're both useful, for different purposes. Perhaps License would be more accurately called License-Type.
Perhaps Hidden-Modules should be renamed Other-Modules, now that it is used by both libraries and executables.
I more or less agree with all this, but it's too late to get any API changes into 6.4 now. We might have to start thinking about backwards compatibility. Cheers, Simon