On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Antoine Latter <aslat...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Ben Gamari <bgamari.f...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> Those of you who follow the Haskell subreddit no doubt saw today's post >> regarding the status of Hackage 2. As has been said many times in the >> past, the primary blocker at this point to the adoption of Hackage 2 >> appears to be the lack of an administrator. >> >> It seems to me this is a poor reason for this effort to be held >> up. Having taken a bit of time to consider, I would be willing to put in >> some effort to get things moving and would be willing to maintain the >> haskell.org Hackage 2.0 instance going forward if necessary. >> >> I currently have a running installation on my personal machine and >> things seem to be working as they should. On the whole, installation was >> quite trivial, so it seems likely that the project is indeed at a point >> where it can take real use (although a "logout" option in the web >> interface would make testing a bit easier). >> > > One thing that made testing hard for me last time was that existing > 'cabal install' client treats the server "hackage.haskell.org" > different from any other server you put in your config files, so > simulating the effect of a cutover on existing users can be tricky. >
Oh, and it isn't absolutely terrible - it only affects the 'upload' command, I think (and the upload + check). > If you don't know what I'm talking about I can look it up. I had a > hacked 'cabal' client at one point, and I could probably re-create the > patches. > > Antoine _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe