<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hackage and Stackage serve different purposes. Hackage is all packages, while Stackage is a curated set of packages. (Therefore, Hackage is essentially the "upstream" of Stackage.) We shouldn't give up on Hackage.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I know I'm jumping into a very, very touchy topic, but isn't the following possible:</div><div><br></div><div>* Stackage & Hackage combine -- even the .cabal & .stack file formats (if possible)</div><div>* The combined entity supports curated packages (via LTS) AND a global free-for-all package list. I, as a user, get to decide how I want my packages to be resolved -- via a curated LTS or via the global package index. </div><div>* The combined entity focuses on building a kickass, unified, piece of community infra, instead of dividing effort+resources and solving similar problems twice.</div><div><br></div><div>-- Saurabh.</div></div>
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