On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 00:27 +0100, Ross Paterson wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 09:45:28PM +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote: > > What do we need to do next? Should we invite a little bit of wider > > testing on cabal-install + hackage and get some user feedback. If that's > > good we should actively advertise and push it. > > I think slowly building the user base among early adopters (as now) will > be the most useful. There's a GSoC project to extend the web interface, > which will involve changes and the risk of temporary breakage. We won't > be ready for everyone till after that.
Right, sure. So just get Haskell hackers using it for the moment, hackers who are tolerant of a bit of churn. > As far as I know, the main thing missing from cabal-install is > documentation. There's a tricky issue of how it should relate to > a system package manager, but that will have to wait. I think it should default to --user-install. Partly just because this means it'll "Just Work"tm for everyone without supplying additional options and without confusing error messages (like /usr/local: permission denied). > > This would be a great way to do distributed testing and a way of finding > > out which packages are well used and tested. If summary info is on the > > website it also allows users to find out if a package is likely to work > > on their machine. > > Sounds like a great idea. Another possibility is to have buildbots > feeding this info back for all packages. Although the number of people we ought to be able to get using cabal-install is probably orders of magnitude greater than the number we can get as buildbot clients. Duncan _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel