On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:34, Andrew Coppin <[email protected]> wrote: > Today I uploaded a package to Hackage, and rediscovered something that you > already know: I'm an idiot. > > More specifically, I copied the Cabal description from another package and > then updated all the fields. Except that I forgot to update one. And now I > have a package which I've erroneously placed in completely the wrong > category.
Don't worry; of all the various ways to screw up a Hackage upload, setting the wrong category is just about the least important. Wait until you've got a few dozen packages in the air, and your hair will turn grey ;) > Is there any danger that at some point in the future, it might be possible > to edit a package /after/ it has been released on Hackage? There are several > reasons why you might wish to do this (beyond realising you did something > wrong five minutes after hitting the upload button): Sadly, the current Hackage maintainers follow the "immutability is good" school of design. A few aspects of packages can be modified, but most (those contained in the .cabal file) cannot. > The maintainer might change. The homepage might move. Both of these are handled by uploading a package with a _._._.Z version number; in general, package version numbers are: X.X.Y.Z X.X - the package's major version. Bump this when there's a backwards-incompatible change (eg, dependent packages might break) Y - minor version. Bump this when the package changes, but in a backwards-compatible way. Z - patch version. Bump this when you just change something that doesn't affect the code itself (comments, documentation, cabal properties) > A better package might come along, making the existing one obsolete. The only way to mark packages as obsolete, as far as I know, is to email a Hackage administrator. > Or you might want to stick a message on the package saying "hey, this version > has a serious > bug, please use the next version up instead!" This would be useful; maybe a feature for Hackage 2? _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
