On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 12:18:25PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> For each such library, I need to be able to tell users where they can go to
> download the dependency.
>
> But I'm having a lot of trouble finding canonical download locations. For
> instance, the homepage of regex-compat, according to
> http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/regex-compat/regex-compat.cabal, is
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazy-regex. But the software available for
> download there doesn't even provide Text.Regex.
>
> Of course, just saying "download the latest version with darcs" isn't
> useful, either. People that want to use my package shouldn't have to have
> darcs, and they also shouldn't have to fight with broken development
> software.
You could direct them to
http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/unstable/
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