Some time ago, I expressed an idea that certain search engines may be used to collect information about existing .cabal packages whose developers made them indexable by those engines. Finally, I have written an experimental library, CabalFind. The library provides a generalized interface to search engines, and also sample implementations for Google and Yahoo* I haven't set it up as a separate project, say, on SourceForge because I am not sure whether it is feasible to do so. Instead, I am suggesting that the developers of Haskell Library Infrastructure decide whether this library may serve as a basis for some library infrastructure maintenance utilities. The library may be downloaded at darcs get http://www.golubovsky.org/repos/cabalfind/ or http://www.golubovsky.org/repos/cabalfind/cabalfind.tar.gz The .cabal file for the package is tailored for GHC 6.2.2. For use with 6.4, changes may be necessary, as the XML Toolbox for 6.4 no longer includes the HTTP module, so HTTP.cabal needs to be included in build-depends. More information provided at http://haskell.org/hawiki/CabalFind Any feedback is appreciated. ------ * Only these two search engines are found to be able to search by URI suffix (.cabal in our case); without this feature package search becomes very inefficient. -- Dimitry Golubovsky Anywhere on the Web