Ross Paterson
Is there any difference between Homepage and Package-Url? Can one of them be removed?
I think package-url is meant to be the "click here to download the cabal-ized tarball of this very package" and homepage is meant to be the homepage. package-url is for Hackage, and homepage is for human consumption. I think package-url will end up being manditory (if you want to get your tool into hackage).
How about moving Build-Depends to the package level (and maybe calling it Depends)?
That makes sense.
Is it sufficient to put License: BSD3 in the package description? Or should License-File be mandatory, and License just an optional hint?
I don't really want to force people to Do the Right Thing necessarily, I just want to force them to think about a license before they put something in Hackage.
(Some people seem to think they should put a copy of the entire licence in each source file. :-)
I once had an open-source project pulled out from under me and made closed source. So I'm a bit obsessive about it.
It doesn't seem to be very useful to have both a library and executables that use it in the same package (at least with the meaning implemented for GHC). One has to list all the library modules again under each executable.
Which field are you referring to here? buildDepends? I think I agree. peace, isaac