On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Jason Dagit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Andrew Coppin < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Jason Dagit wrote: >> >> >>> >>> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Andrew Coppin < >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >>> >>> Duncan Coutts wrote: >>> >>> The Cabal package provides the library. The cabal-install package >>> provides the 'cabal' command line tool. >>> >>> The deprecated package you're thinking of is cabal-get or >>> cabal-setup. >>> >>> >>> Will Hackage one day provide a way to discover that one package >>> has been superceeded by another? >>> >>> Currently you can see when a newer version of the exact same >>> package exists, but (for example) take a took at how many >>> gazillion database packages there are up there. Which ones are >>> active? Which ones are obsolete? How can I tell?? >>> >>> >>> This has come up before. As you can see here: >>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/46764 >>> >>> I think we just need someone (how about you!?) to start working on it. >>> >> >> What do I need to do? Just obtain the Hackage source code and submit a >> Darcs patch or something? Or is it harder than that? > > > A darcs patch should work. If you look in the thread I linked to you'll > see this message by Thomas M. DuBuisson: > By copy and paste, my apologies: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/46773
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