Re: [Haskell-cafe] Diffs for hackage

2011-08-13 Thread wren ng thornton
On 8/13/11 5:39 PM, Joachim Breitner wrote: Hi, Am Samstag, den 13.08.2011, 12:57 +0200 schrieb Joachim Breitner: Maybe it would already help to add a "changelog-file" field to .cabal, just as with license-file, and reject packages on hackage that do not have this field and file, and later deci

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Diffs for hackage

2011-08-13 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
On 14 August 2011 01:13, Joachim Breitner wrote: > But I think David is suggesting to adapt a similarly formatted changelog > file for Cabal packages, e.g. to display them on hackage. I am all for > that, as long as it does not prevent the introduction of changelogs > (e.g. by excessive bikesheddi

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Diffs for hackage

2011-08-13 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Samstag, den 13.08.2011, 12:57 +0200 schrieb Joachim Breitner: > Maybe it would already help to add a "changelog-file" field to .cabal, > just as with license-file, and reject packages on hackage that do not > have this field and file, and later decide if we need a more > standardized forma

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Diffs for hackage

2011-08-13 Thread David Fox
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi, > > Am Sonntag, den 14.08.2011, 00:29 +1000 schrieb Ivan Lazar Miljenovic: >> On 14 August 2011 00:25, David Fox wrote: >> > Debian's packaging has a very strict changelog format where each entry >> > combines a log entry with the pac

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Diffs for hackage

2011-08-13 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Sonntag, den 14.08.2011, 00:29 +1000 schrieb Ivan Lazar Miljenovic: > On 14 August 2011 00:25, David Fox wrote: > > Debian's packaging has a very strict changelog format where each entry > > combines a log entry with the package name, the version number, the > > author's name and email, an

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Diffs for hackage

2011-08-13 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
On 14 August 2011 00:25, David Fox wrote: > > Debian's packaging has a very strict changelog format where each entry > combines a log entry with the package name, the version number, the > author's name and email, and the date.  This creates a very nice, > centralized, authoritative source for the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Diffs for hackage

2011-08-13 Thread David Fox
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 5:18 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: > On 13 August 2011 20:57, Joachim Breitner wrote: >> Maybe it would already help to add a "changelog-file" field to .cabal, >> just as with license-file, and reject packages on hackage that do not >> have this field and file, and late

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Diffs for hackage

2011-08-13 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
On 13 August 2011 20:57, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Maybe it would already help to add a "changelog-file" field to .cabal, > just as with license-file, and reject packages on hackage that do not > have this field and file, and later decide if we need a more > standardized format for changelogs. I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Diffs for hackage

2011-08-13 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Samstag, den 13.08.2011, 08:11 +0200 schrieb Luite Stegeman: > often when a new version of a package is available on hackage, I want > to see what has changed since the previous release. Unfortunately many > packages don't have a changelog this is something that should be changed! Reviewi

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Diffs for hackage

2011-08-13 Thread Christopher Done
Wow, really nice stuff. Great work! I'll find this very useful. On 13 August 2011 08:11, Luite Stegeman wrote: > hi all, > often when a new version of a package is available on hackage, I want to see > what has changed since the previous release. Unfortunately many packages > don't have a changel

[Haskell-cafe] Diffs for hackage

2011-08-12 Thread Luite Stegeman
hi all, often when a new version of a package is available on hackage, I want to see what has changed since the previous release. Unfortunately many packages don't have a changelog or a public source code repository. That's why I have made a simple website with git repositories that contain all ve