[Haskell-cafe] ANN: ecu-0.0.0

Henning Thielemann schlepptop at henning-thielemann.de
Sat Sep 11 13:47:28 EDT 2010


Stephen Tetley schrieb:
> On 10 September 2010 05:11, Tom Hawkins <tomahawkins at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Another question: Can we get a Hackage category specifically for the
>> use of Haskell in embedded systems?  I didn't see anything that stood
>> out.
>>
> 
> Hi Tom
> 
> Don't you just pick a category yourself in the Cabal file and Hackage
> creates it when you upload?
> 
> Category:	Embedded
> 
> 
> This is a bit prone to spam I suppose, but could be even worse for bad
> spellers (like myself). Even at the moment, there seems to be some
> discrepancy between categories named with the plural or the singular.

That's why I suggest a warning of Cabal when you are going to upload a
package that opens a new category.


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