
Björn Bringert has a number of ideas for things that could be added to package web pages offered by a Hackage interface, some of which are implemented in his proof-of-concept hask-home: http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~bringert/darcs/hask-home/doc/ I'd like to see things like who uploaded the package and when, and the results of automatic builds of the package. Just knowing whether a package compiles with recent compiler releases would be an excellent bitrot filter. Presumably others will have more ideas, and we'd like them to be able to add things without having to modify the CGI program. So perhaps we could have a directory <package-id>.parts containing fragments of the package page (in either HTML or Björn's HMarkup) which the CGI program stitches together, with some means of specifying the order. Some of these parts could be generated asynchronously, e.g. by build daemons.
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Ross Paterson