Paolo Martini will most likely continue the development of HackageDB as part of his SoC project.
On 6/15/06, Simon Peyton-Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I believe that this is just what HackageDB is for (described in HCAR p20). I have no idea of how complete Hackage is, thus far, though. Simon | so, the best media will be some sort of online database, like CPAN. | it should | | - have enough fields to allow any required searches - by date of | publication, category, author | - automatically extracts this information from cabal files | - support various entry types, such as individuals, papers and all | other mentioned in current HCAR | - allow anyone to add new entries, with or without uploading actual | implementations | | this database should allow to find information about all | the new/updated packages for last week, making possible automatic | generation of this HWN part. in this case to announce his work, | developer should just describe it at this server, and then | | 1) automatic announcement for this mail list will be generated | 2) next week HWN will automatically include description of this package | 3) anyone interested to see new/updated packages for last year or last | month can run appropriate query on this server site | 4) anyone who want to see full list of described packages or list | split by categories can do it again using this site interface | | the good news is what we already have this database - yes, it's HCAR | itself, what is internally keeps as database, afaik. it has many | fields required, although we should add more following the .cabal | file structure. so we can start this online database just | now. the only thing required is the web interface for | editing/searching data | | the next important things will be keeping history of updates | (especially version updates to allow search for libraries whose major | version was updated during, for example, last 6 months); adding | "subscription to package" that allows to be warned via email when | libraries i interested are updated; interaction with Hackage _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
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