[Haskell-cafe] Hackage feature request: E-mail author when a package breaks

Max Bolingbroke batterseapower at hotmail.com
Tue Nov 1 10:45:24 CET 2011


On 1 November 2011 09:00, Ketil Malde <ketil at malde.org> wrote:
> This is where it stranded the last time, IIRC.  That sentiment makes me
> a bit uneasy; so you are the official maintainer of a package on
> Hackage, but you do not want to hear about it when it fails to compile?

Don't forget that some packages fail to compile on Hackage even though
they work fine, because e.g. they depend on a third-party C library
that is not installed, or depend on some other package that Hackage
cannot build.

Max



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