On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 12:32:45AM -0000, Claus Reinke wrote: > >> i'd much rather have hackage tell me which packages > >> are usable with my platform (build-reports verifying > >> .cabal file accuracy), than tell me how many people > >> on other platforms are using those packages without > >> caring about portability to other platforms!-) > > > > Absolutely, I'd like to see this too. My proposal is along those lines, > > that we use cabal-install to gather test feedback and that hackage > > should collect and summarise that data. It's not trivial however, it > > needs quite a lot of infrastructure. > > > > I opened a bug on it the other day: > > > > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/184 > > yes, that sounds promising. but then i recalled my > standard answer when microsoft asks me to let them > know the details about how acrobat plugin or ghc or > whatever have crashed: it is "no", plain and simple. > so, perhaps promising in theory, but not in practice?
I don't know how hackage would fair, but we get a number of Debian users giving feedback via the popularity-contest package: http://people.debian.org/~igloo/popcon-graphs/index.php?packages=ghc6,hugs&show_installed=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1 All we can do is try it and see what happens, I think. > - is there a README file? this should be a must, > and there are too many packages on hackage > that hardly tell me anything about what they do, > nor how or whether they build on my platform > (the how has been improving with new .cabal > fields, but those fields aren't used everywhere..) What would go in README that wouldn't go in either the Cabal "description" field or the haddock docs? > - is there a build-tools field? if there is no README, > this is a must have. Once Cabal uses the build-tools field in the same way that it uses the build-depends field you won't be able to omit this (unless you don't need any tools to build). Thanks Ian _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
