[Haskell-cafe] ANN: unix-2.4.0.0 additional POSIX real time support

[Duncan Coutts]

On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 12:31 +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote:
> Hi
> 
> > password-protection mechanism i've proposed in previous message
> > partially enforces this policy, although with many caveats. i hope,
> 
> Yay, another password...
> 
> My suggestion would be that each account has a list of permissible
> packages it can upload. i.e. Ian/Ross/Simon would all have their
> accounts include unix as a permissible package. If a user uploads a
> new package, which has not been on hackage before, it gets added to
> their list. A little UI to allow logged in users to add additional
> package maintainers and we'd be all sort - but the UI could come
> later. In general it would enforce what we want, with no overhead in
> the common case.

Yes, I agree.

(I know it's a relation but it seems more intuitive to view it from the
package side rather than the user side)

Duncan