On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 14:47, Don Stewart <d...@galois.com> wrote: > magnus: >> I know there's a .cabal file for the latest version of HP somewhere, >> but I can't coerce Google into finding me a link that actually works. >> Furthermore, the following page: >> >> http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/contents.html >> >> does list all the contents, but to my big surprise it doesn't link to >> the specific versions of the packages for HP, instead it links to the >> latest version found on Hackage. >> >> Would someone with the power to make changes on the HP pages *please* >> make it as easy as possible to find the *exact* specification of what >> HP contains? Please, pretty please with sugar on top. >> >> No, a changelog entry >> (http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/changelog.html) is not very >> helpful (why the HP front page links to it I can't understand). >> >> Going via the Haskell wiki >> (http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_Platform#What.27s_in_the_platform) >> to find a link to the .cabal >> (http://code.haskell.org/haskell-platform/haskell-platform.cabal) is >> not that user friendly. It's even worse that the latter link doesn't >> seem to work at all at the moment. >> >> (The short irritated tone in this email accurately shows my >> desperation with the situation: I thought I would be able to find this >> information with only 5 minutes to spare before my next meeting.) >> > > Currently, the versions are specified in the .cabal file. > A script is used to generate the changelog page (diffcabal, iirc). > > I'll generate a spec page from the .cabal file this week sometime.
Ah, excellent. Sorry for the rather rant-y email before. I've now been to the meeting and managed to calm down a bit :-) > P.S. better sent to the haskell-platform@ list Yes, of course. I'm now trying to fix that by cross-posting, let's hope I won't get too many angry emails about that ;-) /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe _______________________________________________ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform
