On 5/25/11 1:37 PM, Antoine Latter wrote:
On May 25, 2011 11:08 AM, "KQ"<qu...@sparq.org> wrote:
At the risk of returning to a recurring theme that often comes up but
never gets resolved satisfactorily, I'd like to make a cabal proposal:
Add to the .cabal file the following optional field:
Related-package: ACTION NAME VERSION Information
- The first word is the ACTION and is one of: "Replaces", "Redesigns",
"Extends", or "Alternative".
- The second word is the NAME of the related package.
- The third word is the VERSION of the related package.
- Any additional text is information describing how the packages relate
in descriptive terms and could be a multi-line paragraph like the existing
Description: field. [...]
The only thing I'd add would be the additional actions "ReplacedBy",
"ExtendedBy" and "RedesignedBy".
+1.
Though this should probably be made into a formal ticket for Cabal
(especially of the "please apply this patch" variety). I think lack of
implementation has always been a bigger issue than disagreement about
this feature.
--
Live well,
~wren
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