On Jan 15, 2007, at 16:54 , Simon Marlow wrote:
Ross Paterson wrote:
Björn Bringert suggested that the Hackage page for a package should
include a link to the Darcs repo (if any, but who uses anything
else?)
and maybe some darcs integration such as changelogs and the like.
To make this work, we'd need a URL-valued Darcs-Repository field
in the
package description.
Trac uses a syntax like 'VC:FILE' for the repo, eg. 'darcs:/home/
darcs/ghc'. Perhaps we could do the same, something like
source-repository: darcs:http://darcs.haskell.org/happy
or is that too many colons? :) The syntax of the thing after the
'darcs:' is entirely VC-dependent, of course.
I think that we may also need to be able to specify a directory
inside a darcs repo, since many darcs repos contain multiple Cabal
packages. For example, the Cabal repo contains Cabal, cabal-setup and
cabal-install. I guess programs could just search in the repo for
a .cabal file for the right package, but that means having to do a
darcs get. Whether that's ok or not depends on what the field is
used for I suppose.
/Björn
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