[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Haskell Communities & Activities Report (10thed., June 2006)

[Lemmih]

Paolo Martini will most likely continue the development of HackageDB
as part of his SoC project.

On 6/15/06, Simon Peyton-Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com> wrote:
> I believe that this is just what HackageDB is for (described in HCAR
> p20).   I have no idea of how complete Hackage is, thus far, though.
>
> Simon
>
> | so, the best media will be some sort of online database, like CPAN.
> | it should
> |
> | - have enough fields to allow any required searches - by date of
> | publication, category, author
> | - automatically extracts this information from cabal files
> | - support various entry types, such as individuals, papers and all
> | other mentioned in current HCAR
> | - allow anyone to add new entries, with or without uploading actual
> | implementations
> |
> | this database should allow to find information about all
> | the new/updated packages for last week, making possible automatic
> | generation of this HWN part. in this case to announce his work,
> | developer should just describe it at this server, and then
> |
> | 1) automatic announcement for this mail list will be generated
> | 2) next week HWN will automatically include description of this
> package
> | 3) anyone interested to see new/updated packages for last year or last
> | month can run appropriate query on this server site
> | 4) anyone who want to see full list of described packages or list
> | split by categories can do it again using this site interface
> |
> | the good news is what we already have this database - yes, it's HCAR
> | itself, what is internally keeps as database, afaik. it has many
> | fields required, although we should add more following the .cabal
> | file structure. so we can start this online database just
> | now. the only thing required is the web interface for
> | editing/searching data
> |
> | the next important things will be keeping history of updates
> | (especially version updates to allow search for libraries whose major
> | version was updated during, for example, last 6 months); adding
> | "subscription to package" that allows to be warned via email when
> | libraries i interested are updated; interaction with Hackage
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