Hi Michael, I want this tool. I fake it slightly by using my RSS reader and http://page2rss.com/ to get notified when any packages I depend on change, which basically works - but if you could provide a better service (ideally integrated in to hackage), I'd use it.
Thanks, Neil On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Bas van Dijk <v.dijk....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Michael Snoyman <mich...@snoyman.com> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I saw a quote from Eric Kow via Neil Mitchell[1] that we don't spend >> enough time writing tools. Well, I've decided that the most annoying >> part of package maintainership right now is staying on top of new >> versions of dependencies. We essentially have two options right now: >> >> * Follow the PVP and put an upper bound on all dependencies, and >> people will be upset when your package only works with the old version >> of the dependency. >> * Skip the upper bound, and risk having your code break when there's a >> new version. >> >> I have an idea for a tool: you give it a list of packages you >> maintain, or even better yet, you give it your email address and it >> gets that list automatically. Then is looks through all your >> dependencies and sees if you have any upper bounds preventing newer >> versions from being used. Bonus points for making it a web service >> that just gives you an RSS feed. >> >> If anyone's interested in writing a tool like that, let me know. >> Otherwise, next time I'm twiddling my thumbs I'll try to throw it >> together. I've never dealt directly with the Cabal library, but >> there's a first time for everything. If someone else wants to write >> that tool and wants help sticking a web service on it, let me know. >> >> Michael >> >> [1] http://neilmitchell.blogspot.com/2010/10/enhanced-cabal-sdist.html >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >> > > This would be a nice feature for the new hackage server: > http://sparky.haskell.org:8080 > > Bas > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe