On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 13:50 -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > On May 3, 2007, at 13:47 , Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: > > > on <http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Hackage> I read that there is > > the idea to > > make Hackage support bug tracking and project pages. This looks > > like Hackage > > should provide complete hosting of Haskell projects at some time. > > Is this > > really intended? Since any reasonable Haskell project should use > > Hackage > > now, this would mean that a Haskell software developer cannot use > > another > > hosting provider or whatever to host his project. I think this > > would be very > > bad since the decision about how and where to host a project > > shouldn’t be > > based primarily on what programming language it uses. > > My understanding is that yes, it will offer hosting eventually; but > this will be an option, not a requirement. Many people don't have > readily available hosting options, so this would make it easier for > them to contribute.
Indeed. Also it's quite possible to host another hackage server instance and cabal-install can deal with multiple hackage servers so for example one could host a hackage server inside an organisation and cabal-install could get packages from both. Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
