Re: hackage-server: index format

2010-11-19 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 13:46 +, Ross Paterson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 07:46:33PM -0600, Antoine Latter wrote: > > The index tar-ball on Hackage has an odd naming convention. Package > > descriptions are given paths of the form: > > > > ./$pkg/$version/$pkg.cabal > > > > including the

Re: hackage-server: index format

2010-11-19 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 14:44 +0100, Tillmann Rendel wrote: > Duncan Coutts wrote: > > [...] symlinks [...] > > > > Opinions? > > How would this interact with the absence of symlinks on Windows? Not a problem at all. The index tarballs are never unpacked to files on disk. We read the tar file direc

Re: hackage-server: index format

2010-11-19 Thread Antoine Latter
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Duncan Coutts wrote: > On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 12:27 +, Duncan Coutts wrote: > >> Matt and I also discussed making the 00-index.tar.gz into a RESTful >> format by adding proper URLs for package tarballs. > > Indeed we could go further and use a single general for

Re: hackage-server: index format

2010-11-19 Thread Matthew Gruen
--- don't think the message made it to cabal-devel, forwarding, sorry if you get it twice --- On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Tillmann Rendel wrote: > Duncan Coutts wrote: >> >> [...] symlinks [...] >> >> Opinions? > > How would this interact with the absence of symlinks on Windows? > >  Tillman

Re: hackage-server: index format

2010-11-19 Thread Lars Viklund
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 02:44:39PM +0100, Tillmann Rendel wrote: > Duncan Coutts wrote: >> [...] symlinks [...] > > How would this interact with the absence of symlinks on Windows? Note that NTFS has supported all kinds of links, sym- and hard-, since Vista and up, so I guess you're referring to e

Re: hackage-server: index format

2010-11-19 Thread Ross Paterson
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 07:46:33PM -0600, Antoine Latter wrote: > The index tar-ball on Hackage has an odd naming convention. Package > descriptions are given paths of the form: > > ./$pkg/$version/$pkg.cabal > > including the leading "./". > I'm guessing that this is done as a method of distingu

Re: hackage-server: index format

2010-11-19 Thread Tillmann Rendel
Duncan Coutts wrote: [...] symlinks [...] Opinions? How would this interact with the absence of symlinks on Windows? Tillmann ___ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel

Re: [Hackage] #768: Cabal cannot find GHC when using relative path in -w flag

2010-11-19 Thread Hackage
#768: Cabal cannot find GHC when using relative path in -w flag -+-- Reporter: tibbe |Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal |Mile

[Hackage] #768: Cabal cannot find GHC when using relative path in -w flag

2010-11-19 Thread Hackage
#768: Cabal cannot find GHC when using relative path in -w flag +--- Reporter: tibbe |Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal |Milestone:

Re: hackage-server: index format

2010-11-19 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 12:27 +, Duncan Coutts wrote: > Matt and I also discussed making the 00-index.tar.gz into a RESTful > format by adding proper URLs for package tarballs. Indeed we could go further and use a single general format for describing or distributing bundles of packages. Use ca

Re: hackage-server: index format

2010-11-19 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 19:46 -0600, Antoine Latter wrote: > Hi folks, > > The index tar-ball on Hackage has an odd naming convention. Package > descriptions are given paths of the form: > > ./$pkg/$version/$pkg.cabal > > including the leading "./". > I'm guessing that this is done as a method of

[Hackage] #767: Highlighted source code on hackage.haskell.org mangles Unicode

2010-11-19 Thread Hackage
#767: Highlighted source code on hackage.haskell.org mangles Unicode --+- Reporter: andersk |Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal