On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Simon Marlow wrote:

Johan Tibell wrote:

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On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Ian Lynagh wrote:

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* In the documentation for each function etc, the first version to  support the feature is given.

I have often missed this when trying to pick a lower bound for my package dependencies. Creating a tool that computes this automatically would help the developers do this easily.

It was proposed as a SoC project for this summer, but didn't make the cut:

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/ticket/1565

I'd be more than happy to provide pointers/guidance if anyone wants to tackle this.

Cheers,        Simon

I do volunteer for this. How can I get guidance? Regards, Laszlo

On 14/08/2009 21:00, Duncan Coutts wrote:

On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 15:34 +0200, Laszlo Nagy wrote:

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I have often missed this when trying to pick a lower bound for my package dependencies. Creating a tool that computes this automatically would help the developers do this easily.

It was proposed as a SoC project for this summer, but didn't make the cut:

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/ticket/1565

I'd be more than happy to provide pointers/guidance if anyone wants to tackle this.

Cheers, Simon

I do volunteer for this. How can I get guidance?

Great!

Do you use IRC? The #ghc IRC channel, the ghc users mailing list and cabal-devel mailing list would be great places to get guidance and feedback.

Yes - and I think it would be a good idea to throw some ideas around first, and draft a design on the wiki before starting to hack something up. Cheers, Simon