On 23 July 2010 02:31, Daniel Fischer <daniel.is.fisc...@web.de> wrote: > On Thursday 22 July 2010 18:23:32, Stephen Tetley wrote: >> Hiding unmaintained libraries seems contrary to Hackage's spirit - if >> you want to depend on an unmaintained library why not volunteer to be >> the maintainer. > > I think it was more meant to be > > fails to build and not updated for (>= k months) ==> > move to packages/notshiny
Which doesn't help if the package doesn't build due to a missing C library, inconsistent dependencies (Hackage using two different versions of bytestring is a common problem I've come across), or is meant for a different (i.e. non-Linux) OS than the one Hackage is on. > If it doesn't build and nobody seems to care about it anymore, why let it > clutter the pkg-list, that's crowded enough even without zombies. Because it could be a package that builds if you install the correct C library first, and it hasn't been updated for k months because there's no need to. -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
