On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 10:41 +1300, Daniel McAllansmith wrote: > On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:27:36 Duncan Coutts wrote: > > It's even easier than that! Someone has done it already :-) > > > > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/261 > > > > Thu Aug 28 16:55:16 CEST 2008 Chry Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Marking packages deprecated > > Fixes ticket no. 261 as discussed in its annotations. Packages with > > "deprecated" "true" are excluded from the package list. Packages with > > "superseded by" tags provide links to their superseding packages in the > > package page. > > Does "excluded from the package list" mean that deprecated packages won't > show > up on http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pkg-list.html ?
As I understand it, yes. > If so, how does one go about finding and downloading deprecated packages? > Rely on the search function to find the package page? > How do you get a comprehensive list of the deprecated packages that have > existed? At the moment I think it would not be easy. You'd have to compare the current index with the upload log to find the hidden pages. > Perhaps there should be a deprecated-pkg-list.html page. > If being superseded implies deprecation this page is also where the > superseded > packages would go, with appropriate supersedes/superseded-by links between > them. Sounds sensible. Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
