That would be cool. I wonder if reaching a Fail-Node means permadeath or not. "A big set of conflicts fell on your head. You are stumbling back down the stairs.."
Meanwhile, I am just trying to make it less wordy ;-) Ciao, Martin On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 3:35 AM, Conrad Parker <con...@metadecks.org> wrote: > On 13 June 2013 23:55, Martin Ruderer <martin.rude...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> we are nearing the end of the "Students get to know mentors, read >> documentation, get up to speed to begin working on their >> projects"-Phase and I would like to tell you what I have done so far >> and how you can follow my progress in the future, if you like. >> >> I have forked cabal at https://github.com/mr-/cabal and I have set up >> a little blog at http://cabal-summer.blogspot.de/ . >> >> So far, I have written an IDE to navigate the dependency tree >> interactively. However the output is not very user-friendly yet. >> This I will focus on in the immediate future. >> >> If you have any comments on what you would like to see done, or more >> concretely, have suggestions for useful commands to walk the tree, >> I would be very grateful. > > That's a pretty cool UI you've got there. However it's a bit wordy, > perhaps you could draw the tree visually and allow the user to > navigate it that way? > > ------ - Package boundary > |....| ############ # Untraversed dependency > |....| # # . A cabal file > |.$..+######## # $ Some quantity of bugs > |....| # ---+--- + A version choice > ------ # |.....| | Package boundary > # |.!...| ! A magic pragma > # |.....| > # |..@..| @ The user > ---- # |.....| > |..| #######+..D..| D A red dragon book > |<.+### # |.....| < Stairs to a higher level dependency > ---- # # |.?...| ? A magic script > ###### ------- > > Conrad. _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
