On Tuesday 17 June 2003 4:23 am, Isaac Jones wrote:
From where I'm standing, the action-items seem to be this:
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It would be useful to have a more complete picture of all the libraries, tools, programs, etc. that are out there 'waiting' to be packaged up. By trawling through announcements in the haskell list whose subject line starts with 'ANN' or 'ANNOUNCE', I generated a list which I placed near the bottom of: http://haskell.org/hawiki/LibrariesAndTools I also built a table showing which systems these libraries and tools are available for as 'packages' (.msi files, debian/ redhat packages, freebsd ports, etc.) We need three things: We need people who wrote libraries to check that the information about their software is listed and is correct. It would also be useful to add a column which says what license the software is released under (and to make sure the current release contains a copy of that license). We need people who package these libraries to check that any packages they distribute are listed and the version number I found is correct. It would also be useful to have a link to a list of all the packages you produce. We need someone to think about how this information can be kept up to date, easily searched, linked to the information in haskell.org/libraries, etc. The wiki is easy enough to update but it's no use as a database or for generating different views of the data. (Hmmm, is the software used to run sites like 'freshmeat' available and adaptable to our purposes?) If you need to make a change, just go ahead and edit the wiki directly. Click EditText in the bottom left corner, make some changes, use preview to check the formatting, and consider signing any comments you make. -- Alastair Reid