Duncan Coutts wrote:
On 18 August 2010 18:13, Andrew Coppin <andrewcop...@btinternet.com> wrote:
Then again, all the links were broken anyway. They all had paths like
"C:\Program Files\Haskell\...whatever", and Mozilla apparently expects them
to say "file://C:/Program Files/Haskell/...whatever". It kept whining that
"the C:\ protocol is not registered".
Does anybody know anything about this feature?
Andrew, I just wanted to let you know that Cabal/cabal-install/hackage
has a bug tracker:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/
We rely on users reporting bugs so that we know there is anything
wrong. There is a guest account so that anyone can file tickets. There
is a search feature to see if anyone has reported a similar problem
previously (though we prefer getting duplicates than no reports at
all). For bugs that really annoy you, you can add your email address
to the 'cc list so that you get notified when the ticket is updated.
That also counts as a "vote" for that ticket, we take that into
account when prioritising things.
I guess I just figured that since Cabal is used by hundreds of millions
of people every single day, any little glitches I might have come across
have already been seen by at least 1,000 people before me (and hence,
the developers already know about it and just haven't had time to fix it
yet).
Then again, I thought the same thing the very first time I tried Gtk2hs,
and the Windows build was trivially broken. (I hadn't noticed it, but it
was actually a new 2-day-old release.)
I know Windows is a rare platform for Haskell, but presumably the
Cabal's dependency-related stuff is the same on any platform. (?) I'm
also interested to know if the master index works on other platforms
too. (I suppose that's really a Haddock issue rather than Cabal.) For
that matter, I notice that Hackage seems to be using a much higher
version number of Haddock than what I currently have installed. So maybe
what I ought to do is go fetch the latest versions of all the tools and
see what works. Some of the stuff I'm seeing might be fixed already.
My reason in posting here was really to see if others had similar
experiences, and see if there are easier ways of getting things done.
(And, for example, I now know about the root-cmd command.) Posting
actual bug tickets requires a lot of time, energy and effort to
determine exactly what the problem is and build a reproducible test
case. And, like I said, I kind of assumed that all this stuff must
already be "well known", given how popular Cabal is.
_______________________________________________
Haskell-Cafe mailing list
Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org
http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
