Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage 2 switchover imminent

On 24 September 2013 22:38, Duncan Coutts wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Having been running the Hackage 2 alpha & beta for several months we > intend to do the final switchover tomorrow (Wednesday 25th Sept). > > This will involve disabling uploads to the old server for a few hours. > If all goes well

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage 2 switchover imminent

On 24 September 2013 22:38, Duncan Coutts wrote: > For issues with accounts or permissions please contact the > administrators by email at adm...@hackage.haskell.org Sorry, that should be: ad...@hackage.haskell.org Ie singular admin, not plural. I got myself confused because there are several a

[Haskell-cafe] Hackage 2 switchover imminent

Hi everyone, Having been running the Hackage 2 alpha & beta for several months we intend to do the final switchover tomorrow (Wednesday 25th Sept). This will involve disabling uploads to the old server for a few hours. If all goes well we will switch the DNS over. If anything goes wrong we will j

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage 2 now available for beta testing

On 09.09.2013 20:24, Duncan Coutts wrote: > Well-Typed and the Industrial Haskell Group (IHG) are very pleased > to announce that Hackage 2 is now available for public beta testing. > > [new features]: http://beta.hackage.haskell.org/new-features > > Package "candidates". You may have noticed

[Haskell-cafe] Hackage 2 now available for beta testing

Well-Typed and the Industrial Haskell Group (IHG) are very pleased to announce that Hackage 2 is now available for public beta testing. The plan is to do the final switchover in late September, to coincide with ICFP. http://beta.hackage.haskell.org/ Read on for details of how to help with the pub

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage upload problem

On 2013-08-07 17:06 , Duncan Coutts wrote: > On Wed, 2013-08-07 at 14:32 +0200, Thomas Hallgren wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I get the following error when I try to upload gf-3.5.tar.gz [1] to Hackage. >> >> 400 Error in upload >> could not extract gf-3.5 directory from gf-3.5.tar.gz >> >> >> I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage upload problem

On Wed, 2013-08-07 at 14:32 +0200, Thomas Hallgren wrote: > Hi, > > I get the following error when I try to upload gf-3.5.tar.gz [1] to Hackage. > > 400 Error in upload > could not extract gf-3.5 directory from gf-3.5.tar.gz > > > I get the same error when I try to Check the previ

[Haskell-cafe] Hackage upload problem

Hi, I get the following error when I try to upload gf-3.5.tar.gz [1] to Hackage. 400 Error in upload could not extract gf-3.5 directory from gf-3.5.tar.gz I get the same error when I try to Check the previous version, gf-3.4.tar.gz [2], which was uploaded without problems 6 mont

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage Update Brigade

On 5/27/13 5:29 PM, Alexander Solla wrote: > As per recent discussions, I'm making a list of volunteers who are willing > to pick up some slack in Hackage package maintenance, so that we can submit > an amendment to the Haskell Prime Committee's ticket 113 ( > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskel

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage Update Brigade

2013/5/28 Conrad Parker : > For that proposal, there is also an informal github group for updating > unmaintained packages, > which anyone willing is welcome to join: Say I would be willing to spend a few hours a month to fix some problems, but I'm not very experienced; I only use haskell for a f

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage Update Brigade

Can I join too? Always happy to spend my free time merging and reviewing some Haskell code :) A. On 29 May 2013 04:56, Lyndon Maydwell wrote: > Done :) > > > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Conrad Parker wrote: > >> On 29 May 2013 08:54, Lyndon Maydwell wrote: >> > How can I join the group?

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage Update Brigade

Done :) On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Conrad Parker wrote: > On 29 May 2013 08:54, Lyndon Maydwell wrote: > > How can I join the group? > > by asking any of the current members :) I've added you. > > > P.S. I've attached a simple image for the Gravatar if it looks okay. > > great, can you a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage Update Brigade

On 29 May 2013 08:54, Lyndon Maydwell wrote: > How can I join the group? by asking any of the current members :) I've added you. > P.S. I've attached a simple image for the Gravatar if it looks okay. great, can you add it? Conrad. > > > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Conrad Parker > wrote

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage Update Brigade

How can I join the group? P.S. I've attached a simple image for the Gravatar if it looks okay. On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Conrad Parker wrote: > On 28 May 2013 05:29, Alexander Solla wrote: > > As per recent discussions, I'm making a list of volunteers who are > willing > > to pick up s

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage Update Brigade

On 28 May 2013 05:29, Alexander Solla wrote: > As per recent discussions, I'm making a list of volunteers who are willing > to pick up some slack in Hackage package maintenance, so that we can submit > an amendment to the Haskell Prime Committee's ticket 113 > (http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hask

[Haskell-cafe] Hackage Update Brigade

As per recent discussions, I'm making a list of volunteers who are willing to pick up some slack in Hackage package maintenance, so that we can submit an amendment to the Haskell Prime Committee's ticket 113 ( http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/ticket/113) I think that showing that peop

Re: [Haskell-cafe] hackage update brigade (was Re: ANNOUNCE: new bridge! (prelude-prime))

On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 02:10:28PM -0400, Clark Gaebel wrote: > I'd be down for helping update packages when the time comes. As am I, for what it's worth. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/has

Re: [Haskell-cafe] hackage update brigade (was Re: ANNOUNCE: new bridge! (prelude-prime))

I'd be down for helping update packages when the time comes. On May 27, 2013 12:08 PM, "Evan Laforge" wrote: > > Yes, it would break code. Probably a lot of code. > > So of course I volunteer to fix my code, but that's not much help, > since it's a small minority of the code on hackage. So that

[Haskell-cafe] hackage update brigade (was Re: ANNOUNCE: new bridge! (prelude-prime))

> Yes, it would break code. Probably a lot of code. So of course I volunteer to fix my code, but that's not much help, since it's a small minority of the code on hackage. So that made me think, maybe we should organize a kind of hackage community service brigade, which, when the time is right, w

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

07.05.2013 14:21, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic пишет: On 7 May 2013 17:36, Ilya Portnov wrote: Hi Cafe. I have thought that a more interesting metric might be to send the maintainer an email when their package stops building automatically on hackage. I think, this is "must have" feature for new

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

Some further ideas: - Make the periodic maintainership reminders optional. Every developer would be able to choose if (s)he wishes to receive them or not. I believe many would choose to receive them. - Maintain the last date the maintainership has been verified - either by an upload of a new vers

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

+1. I would be more than happy to receive such an email every 3 months and quickly scan the page to update the "maintained" status for each of the packages where I'm marked as the maintainer. One modification I would make is to persist the checked state across emails. They should all be uncheck

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

On 7 May 2013 17:36, Ilya Portnov wrote: > Hi Cafe. > > > >> I have thought that a more interesting metric might be to send the >> maintainer an email when their package stops building automatically on >> hackage. > > > I think, this is "must have" feature for new hackage. If error was occured > d

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

Hi Cafe. I have thought that a more interesting metric might be to send the maintainer an email when their package stops building automatically on hackage. I think, this is "must have" feature for new hackage. If error was occured during build, send email to maintainer: "Error occured whil

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

Being in favor of not needlessly harassing people, even for a few minutes, I would favor issuing such emails only when there is some reason to believe that the package is not maintained. The two situations I can see that would justify such an email: - A dependency exceeds the upper bound listed

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

On Monday 06 May 2013 14:34:13 Tobias Dammers wrote: > The problem is that people tend to (truthfully) check such a box, then > stop maintaining the package for whatever reasons, and never bother > unchecking the box. I think there should be just one mail per maintainer mail address, not per pack

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

Deepseq comes to mind regarding a "perfect" package that doesn't require active maintenance. - Clark On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Petr Pudlák wrote: > 2013/5/6 Tillmann Rendel > >> Petr Pudlák wrote: >> >> -- Forwarded message -- >>> From: *Niklas Hambüchen* mail

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

2013/5/6 Tillmann Rendel > Petr Pudlák wrote: > > -- Forwarded message -- >> From: *Niklas Hambüchen* mailto:m...@nh2.me>> >> Date: 2013/5/4 >> ... >> I would even be happy with newhackage sending every package >> maintainer a >> quarterly question "Would

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

I do think it's a real problem even for seasoned haskellers. I don't have problems in remembering which packages I should use for the things I've already used before recently, but I need to search Hackage just as everyone else as soon as I need to do something new. I also agree that this is more

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

is that really a problem though? Who's problem are we trying to solve? Is this being proposed to help seasoned haskellers, or make getting started easier for new folks? those are two VERY different problems. Also many of the maintainers for heavily used packages are incredibly busy as is, do they

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

Well, that's what the "once every 3 months" is good for. On Mon 06 May 2013 20:34:13 SGT, Tobias Dammers wrote: > The problem is that people tend to (truthfully) check such a box, then > stop maintaining the package for whatever reasons, and never bother > unchecking the box. ___

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 08:14:59PM +0800, Niklas Hambüchen wrote: > On 06/05/13 20:06, Tillmann Rendel wrote: > > Is "a human clicked the check box" a good metric for "a human commits > > themselves to this package"? > > If the check box has the text "Do you want this thing to be called > 'maintai

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

On 06/05/13 20:06, Tillmann Rendel wrote: > Is "a human clicked the check box" a good metric for "a human commits > themselves to this package"? If the check box has the text "Do you want this thing to be called 'maintained' on Hackage" next to it, yes. ___

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

Don't underestimate how greatly people appreciate being saved a couple of minutes! On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Niklas Hambüchen wrote: > On 06/05/13 17:46, Tillmann Rendel wrote: > > So what about this: Hackage could try to automatically collect and > > display information about the develop

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

Hi, Niklas Hambüchen wrote: Having the metrics you mention is nice, but still they are just metrics and say little the only thing that's important: Is there a human who commits themselves to this package? I like the idea of displaying additional info about the status of package developmen

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

On 06/05/13 17:46, Tillmann Rendel wrote: > So what about this: Hackage could try to automatically collect and > display information about the development status of packages that allow > potential users to *guess* In my opinion, that's what we have now. Obtaining the info in the four points you m

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

Hi, Petr Pudlák wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: *Niklas Hambüchen* mailto:m...@nh2.me>> Date: 2013/5/4 ... I would even be happy with newhackage sending every package maintainer a quarterly question "Would you still call your project X 'maintained'?"

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

Yes -- being maintained, and have a lot of commit activity are not the same thing. There are many simple libraries which do not require much ongoing develop. They are designed to do something of limited scope, and they only need to be updated when something breaks. I have thought that a more inter

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

I don't think that activity in the repo has too much to do with something being maintained. Maintainance is a thing humans commit to, so the question of whether something is maintained should be a question to a human. I often push a quick build failure fix for my packages, some of which I woul

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

If there's a github link in the package url, it could check the last update to the default branch. If it's more than 6 months ago, an email to the maintainer of "is this package maintained?" can be sent. If there's no reply in 3 months, the package is marked as unmaintained. If the email is ever re

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

But what if the package is already perfect? Jokes aside, I think that activity alone wouldn't be a good indicator. On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Conrad Parker wrote: > On 6 May 2013 09:42, Felipe Almeida Lessa wrote: > > Just checking the repo wouldn't work. It may still have some activity

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

On 6 May 2013 09:42, Felipe Almeida Lessa wrote: > Just checking the repo wouldn't work. It may still have some activity > but not be maintained and vice-versa. ok, how about this: if the maintainer feels that their repo and maintenance activities are non-injective they can additionally provide

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

Just checking the repo wouldn't work. It may still have some activity but not be maintained and vice-versa. On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Doug Burke wrote: > > On May 5, 2013 7:25 AM, "Petr Pudlák" wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> on another thread there was a suggestion which perhaps went unnoticed by

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

And we can have something on hackage that does this check automatically! And we can put "unmaintained" in the description! And then we can leave it unmaintained! "Unmaintained" should have its own flag, I think... On 5/5/2013 2:28 PM, Petr Pudlák wrote: I'd say: - If a package has UNMAINTAINE

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

I'd say: - If a package has UNMAINTAINED (perhaps also DEPRECATED?) somewhere in its title/description, don't do anything. - Otherwise if the package hasn't been updated for past 3 months, send a quarterly reminder (including the information under what conditions the reminder is sent). 2013/5/5

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

On May 5, 2013 7:25 AM, "Petr Pudlák" wrote: > > Hi, > > on another thread there was a suggestion which perhaps went unnoticed by most: > >> -- Forwarded message -- >> From: Niklas Hambüchen >> Date: 2013/5/4 >> ... >> I would even be happy with newhackage sending every package ma

[Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

Hi, on another thread there was a suggestion which perhaps went unnoticed by most: -- Forwarded message -- > From: Niklas Hambüchen > Date: 2013/5/4 > ... > I would even be happy with newhackage sending every package maintainer a > quarterly question "Would you still call your pr

Re: [Haskell-cafe] hackage builds stopped?

It seems that other packages have been build. Mine is http://hackage.haskell.org/package/MFlow-0.2.0.3 the previous uploads that I sent the past week have been compiled (error logs produced). But this last version don't. Are there some processing policy that I may don´t know? 2013/1/15 Albert

[Haskell-cafe] hackage builds stopped?

What is the schedule of the hackage builds?. My package has been uploaded since three days ago, and it has not been compiled yet... -- Alberto. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage down, again?

A mirror is available here: http://hdiff.luite.com/packages/archive/ See: http://comonad.com/reader/2012/hackage-mirror/ ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage suggestion: Gather the list of the licenses of all dependencies of a package

On 15 Dec 2012, at 16:54, Michael Snoyman wrote: > I would strongly recommend reconsidering the licensing decision of cpphs. > Even if the LICENSE-commercial is sufficient for non-source releases of > software to be protected[1], it introduces a very high overhead for companies > to need to an

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage suggestion: Gather the list of the licenses of all dependencies of a package

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote: > On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 16:14:59 +0100, Brandon Allbery > wrote: > >> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Petr P wrote: >> >>> So if I put cpphs into build-tools and I don't have it installed, the >>> build will fail? Is this a desired behavio

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage suggestion: Gather the list of the licenses of all dependencies of a package

On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 16:14:59 +0100, Brandon Allbery wrote: On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Petr P wrote: So if I put cpphs into build-tools and I don't have it installed, the build will fail? Is this a desired behavior, or a bug? Shortcoming of cabal; it only "knows about" libraries be

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage down, again?

new-hackage is down too. On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Magnus Therning wrote: > It looks like hackage is down again. Is it planned or unplanned > downtime this time? > > There doesn't happen to be some mirror of the packages that is a bit > more reliable than the original? > > /M > > -- > Ma

[Haskell-cafe] Hackage down, again?

It looks like hackage is down again. Is it planned or unplanned downtime this time? There doesn't happen to be some mirror of the packages that is a bit more reliable than the original? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: mag...@therning.org jabber: mag...@

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage suggestion: Gather the list of the licenses of all dependencies of a package

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Malcolm Wallace wrote: > This might a good time to remind everyone that every single program > compiled by a standard GHC is linked against an LGPL library (the Gnu > multi-precision integer library) - unless you take care first to build your > own > This is less

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage suggestion: Gather the list of the licenses of all dependencies of a package

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Malcolm Wallace wrote: > > On 13 Dec 2012, at 10:41, Petr P wrote: > > > In particular, we can have a BSD package that depends on a LGPL package, > and this is fine for FOSS developers. But for a commercial developer, this > can be a serious issue that is not appar

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage suggestion: Gather the list of the licenses of all dependencies of a package

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Petr P wrote: > So if I put cpphs into build-tools and I don't have it installed, the > build will fail? Is this a desired behavior, or a bug? > Shortcoming of cabal; it only "knows about" libraries because it is really just a front-end for ghc-pkg, so can't real

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage suggestion: Gather the list of the licenses of all dependencies of a package

On 13 Dec 2012, at 10:41, Petr P wrote: > In particular, we can have a BSD package that depends on a LGPL package, and > this is fine for FOSS developers. But for a commercial developer, this can be > a serious issue that is not apparent until one examines *every* transitive > dependency. Thi

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage suggestion: Gather the list of the licenses of all dependencies of a package

On 13 Dec 2012, at 18:40, Michael Snoyman wrote: > I'm not quite certain what to make of: > > If you have a commercial use for cpphs, and feel the terms of the (L)GPL > are too onerous, you have the option of distributing unmodified binaries > (only, not sources) under the terms of a different l

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage suggestion: Gather the list of the licenses of all dependencies of a package

2012/12/15 Brent Yorgey > On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 08:13:44AM +0100, Petr P wrote: > > This is strange, I thought that cpphs should be specified in > > "build-tools:", not in "build-depends:". > > < > > > http://www.haskell.org/cabal/users-guide/developing-packages.html#build-information > > > > >

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage suggestion: Gather the list of the licenses of all dependencies of a package

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 08:13:44AM +0100, Petr P wrote: > This is strange, I thought that cpphs should be specified in > "build-tools:", not in "build-depends:". > < > http://www.haskell.org/cabal/users-guide/developing-packages.html#build-information > > > > Best regards, > Petr Presumably the r

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage suggestion: Gather the list of the licenses of all dependencies of a package

This is strange, I thought that cpphs should be specified in "build-tools:", not in "build-depends:". < http://www.haskell.org/cabal/users-guide/developing-packages.html#build-information > Best regards, Petr 2012/12/13 Michael Snoyman > > > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Daniel Trstenjak

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage suggestion: Gather the list of the licenses of all dependencies of a package

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Daniel Trstenjak < daniel.trsten...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 08:40:09PM +0200, Michael Snoyman wrote: > > If you have a commercial use for cpphs, and feel the terms of the (L)GPL > > are too onerous, you have the option of distributing unmodifi

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage suggestion: Gather the list of the licenses of all dependencies of a package

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 08:40:09PM +0200, Michael Snoyman wrote: > If you have a commercial use for cpphs, and feel the terms of the (L)GPL > are too onerous, you have the option of distributing unmodified binaries > (only, not sources) under the terms of a different licence (see > LICENCE-commerc

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage suggestion: Gather the list of the licenses of all dependencies of a package

I'm not quite certain what to make of: If you have a commercial use for cpphs, and feel the terms of the (L)GPL are too onerous, you have the option of distributing unmodified binaries (only, not sources) under the terms of a different licence (see LICENCE-commercial). It seems like that's saying

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage suggestion: Gather the list of the licenses of all dependencies of a package

>From [1] I gather that its license really is LGPL/GPL. However, when used as a preprocessor its license doesn't really matter. Many packages on that list have a LGPL "taint" because one of its deps use cpphs. So the whitelist of cpphs would be stating that nobody is using cpphs as a library (wh

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage suggestion: Gather the list of the licenses of all dependencies of a package

Are you referring to: http://code.haskell.org/cpphs/LICENCE-commercial If the package is dual-licensed BSD3 and LGPL, maybe Malcolm could change the cabal file to mention the BSD3 so that its package description is less intimidating? On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Felipe Almeida Lessa < felip

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage suggestion: Gather the list of the licenses of all dependencies of a package

While you're at it, maybe whitelisting cpphs would be nice as well =). On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Michael Snoyman wrote: > > > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Vincent Hanquez wrote: >> >> On 12/13/2012 12:51 PM, Michael Snoyman wrote: >>> >>> I think that's a great idea. I just impleme

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage suggestion: Gather the list of the licenses of all dependencies of a package

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Vincent Hanquez wrote: > On 12/13/2012 12:51 PM, Michael Snoyman wrote: > >> I think that's a great idea. I just implemented this on PackDeps: >> >> http://packdeps.haskellers.**com/licenses >> >> As with all features on th

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage suggestion: Gather the list of the licenses of all dependencies of a package

On 12/13/2012 12:51 PM, Michael Snoyman wrote: I think that's a great idea. I just implemented this on PackDeps: http://packdeps.haskellers.com/licenses As with all features on that site, I'll be happy to deprecate it as soon as Hackage incorporates the feature in the future. awesome Michael

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage suggestion: Gather the list of the licenses of all dependencies of a package

I think that's a great idea. I just implemented this on PackDeps: http://packdeps.haskellers.com/licenses As with all features on that site, I'll be happy to deprecate it as soon as Hackage incorporates the feature in the future. Michael On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Petr P wrote: > De

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage suggestion: Gather the list of the licenses of all dependencies of a package

On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:41:14 +0100, Petr P wrote: For each package, gather the list of the licenses of everything it depends on. I think this would help considerably people who don't want or can't use software licensed under a particular license (most often (L)GPL). In particular, we can have a

[Haskell-cafe] Hackage suggestion: Gather the list of the licenses of all dependencies of a package

Dear Haskellers, following up the recent discussion about copyleft licenses, I'd suggest a (hopefully minor) improvement of Hackage: For each package, gather the list of the licenses of everything it depends on. I think this would help considerably people who don't want or can't use software lic

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage dependencies problem.

But I think it should be like this, right? Say ghc provids process-old, and Cabal-old depends on it. Then I use --upgrade-dependencies to install somePackage and so install process-new in user space. The process-old is still there. Why Cabal-old breaks and `ghc-pkg check` gets nothing? On Wed, No

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage dependencies problem.

On 12-11-19 09:39 PM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: And, the key point is that using upgrade-dependencies with cabal-install. I am using git (current) version of cabal-install. Without that argument, things could be fine. With it, it must fail. Therefore, don't use upgrade-dependencies.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage dependencies problem.

Not only shadowing. For example, when I installed warp-static, yesod, or gtk2hs. A clear-user-space may ease the problem and got them installed. But normally with a not brand new user space, it failed like above. And, the key point is that using upgrade-dependencies with cabal-install. I am using g

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage dependencies problem.

On 12-11-19 04:45 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: On 19 November 2012 18:21, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: : cannot satisfy -package Cabal-1.16.0: Cabal-1.16.0-dd0ce1db6fea670a788547ee85411486 is unusable due to missing or recursive dependencies: directory-1.2.0.0-8edf300597b0da609c8

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage dependencies problem.

On 19 November 2012 18:21, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > Hi, > I am having ghc 7.6.1 working here. But anytime I installed something with > cabal-install, I got prompts like: > > Warning: The following packages are likely to be broken by the reinstalls: > haskell98-2.0.0.2 > ghc-7.6.1 > Cabal-1.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage Package Discoverability

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 1:53 AM, Myles C. Maxfield wrote: > Is there a better way to make this algorithm discoverable? How about deprecation pragmas? http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.2.2/html/users_guide/pragmas.html -- gwern http://www.gwern.net __

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage Package Discoverability

The last revision of the encoding package (0.6.7.1) was uploaded 6 days ago, so it's certainly not old. The package is also not unwieldly: the functions (runPut . encode punycode) and (runGet (decode punycode)) are equivalent to my 'encode' and 'decode' functions. In addition, it supports many more

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage Package Discoverability

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:53 AM, Myles C. Maxfield wrote: > I am the author/maintainer of the 'punycode' hackage package. After 4 > months, I just found that punycode conversion already exists in the > Data.Encoding.BootString package inside the 'encoding' package. I'd like to > deprecate my pack

[Haskell-cafe] Hackage Package Discoverability

Hello, I am the author/maintainer of the 'punycode' hackage package. After 4 months, I just found that punycode conversion already exists in the Data.Encoding.BootString package inside the 'encoding' package. I'd like to deprecate my package in favor of the 'encoding' package. However, I would als

[Haskell-cafe] Hackage Documentation issue

Hi, Short question: can I or someone else make the Hackage build bot rebuild a package with a new dependency (even though the initial build was successful)? Long question: Does anyone know what would cause the documentation of a successful Hackage build not to appear on the web? Specifically I'm

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Hackage] Bug report and proposal

On 13 September 2012 04:53, Stayvoid wrote: > Hello, > > I found a bug: "source" points to the wrong page. [1] > > I know that bugs should be reported via Github. But I don't have an > account and don't want to create one. There might be others who don't > want to use Github. Why rely on external

[Haskell-cafe] [Hackage] Bug report and proposal

Hello, I found a bug: "source" points to the wrong page. [1] I know that bugs should be reported via Github. But I don't have an account and don't want to create one. There might be others who don't want to use Github. Why rely on external bug tracker? I assume that it has been chosen because of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage is down?

Am 12.08.2012 08:14, schrieb Henk-Jan van Tuyl: > [1] http://lambda.galois.com/hp-tmp/2011.2.0.1/ The current version is 2012.2.0.0, it can be found here: http://lambda.haskell.org/platform/download/current/ Cheers, Leo Wörteler ___ Haskell-Cafe mailin

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage is down?

On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 21:10:24 +0200, Justin Greene wrote: Anyone have a download link for the haskell platform for windows? I can't find one with hackage down. This link depends on the OS you are using; I found the Haskell Platform page in the Web Archive[0]. The downloads are at the G

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage is down?

Anyone have a download link for the haskell platform for windows? I can't find one with hackage down. On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Thomas DuBuisson < thomas.dubuis...@gmail.com> wrote: > It will be down most of today - we are switching over to a new network > connection. > > On Sat, Aug 11,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage is down?

+Malcom On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 11:31 AM, hanjoosten wrote: > Hi, > > Hackage seems to be down. Is there anyone out here who knows how to get it > online again? > > Thanks! > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/Hackage-is-down-tp5715912.html > Sent fro

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage is down?

It will be down most of today - we are switching over to a new network connection. On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 11:31 AM, hanjoosten wrote: > Hi, > > Hackage seems to be down. Is there anyone out here who knows how to get it > online again? > > Thanks! > > > > -- > View this message in context: > htt

[Haskell-cafe] Hackage is down?

Hi, Hackage seems to be down. Is there anyone out here who knows how to get it online again? Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/Hackage-is-down-tp5715912.html Sent from the Haskell - Haskell-Cafe mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _

[Haskell-cafe] hackage compile failure with QuickCheck 2.5

[This message is more appropriate for a hackage mailing list I presume, but that doesn't seem to exist. Let me know if there's a better place to send it.] I'm having a hackage compile failure for a newly uplodaded package that has a QuickCheck 2.5 dependence. The error message is: [13 of 13] Comp

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage is down?

The machine is undergoing disk checks after a hard reboot.  Hopefully it will be back online soon.Regards, MalcolmOn Jul 12, 2012, at 03:28 PM, Edward Amsden wrote:http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/hackage.haskell.org -- Edward Amsden Student Computer Science Rochester Institute of Tech

[Haskell-cafe] Hackage is down?

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/hackage.haskell.org -- Edward Amsden Student Computer Science Rochester Institute of Technology www.edwardamsden.com ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/h

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage 2 maintainership

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Ben Gamari wrote: > This list is definitely a start. One of the issues that was also > realized is the size of the server's memory footprint. Unfortunately > acid-state's requirement that all data either be in memory or have no > ACID guarantees was found to be a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage 2 maintainership

Krzysztof Skrzętnicki writes: > Hi, > > Are there any news how things are going? > Things have been pretty stagnant yet again. I was more than a bit over-optimistic concerning the amount of time I'd have available to put into this project. Moreover, the tasks required to get Hackage into a usable

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage 2 maintainership

Hi, Are there any news how things are going? What remains there to be done to get us to Hackage 2? I found this list of tickets: https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues?labels=hackage2&page=1&state=open Is there anything more to be done? Best regards, Krzysztof Skrzętnicki On Tue, Feb 14, 2012

Re: [Haskell-cafe] hackage & hackage accounts

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 08:11:05PM +0100, Dmitry Malikov wrote: > 1) Did anyone successfully get their hackage account in last 2 months? About 40 of them. But I slipped up with two of you, I think. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.or

Re: [Haskell-cafe] hackage & hackage accounts

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Dmitry Malikov wrote: > Good day. > > Recently, in irc://#haskell you can see very often replicas of people, who > are tired of waiting their hackage accounts. > After next release of any package from hackagebot, some depressed people > definitely comes out and st

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