(Firstly, I apologize if this is not the right mailing list for this
question. But haskell-cafe seems to be the place to go when in doubt.)
I'm using the hackage-db package (Distribution.Hackage.DB) to analyze
Hackage programatically. It parses 00-index.tar and provides a
mapping from package name and version to a GenericPackageDescription.
I've figured out how to get most of the information I want from the
GenericPackageDescription. But one piece of information that's
present on the Hackage web pages that I'd like to be able to get is
"Upload date", but I can't find this information anywhere in the
GenericPackageDescription. Am I missing it?
It looks like the modification dates of the cabal files inside 00-
index.tar correspond to the upload date. Is this correct? If so, I
could parse this out of 00-index.tar myself (using the "tar"
package). Is that the best way to do what I'm trying to accomplish,
or is there a better, less "reinventing the wheel" way that I'm missing?
Thanks,
--Patrick
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