Hackage rocks

[Thomas Schilling]

On 30 jul 2007, at 17.00, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> I've thought for a while that we should have a cabal-lint, that  
> runs the
> sanity checks that hackage does before accepting an upload. Perhaps
> cabal-lint could also check that building and haddocking works, and  
> run
> the packages testsuite too? People would then be encouraged to run  
> that
> before uploading to hackage, and to the extent permitted by security
> concerns, hackage could run cabal-lint itself.

It should certainly be part of cabal-upload.  (We do have a cabal- 
upload program, don't we?)

/ Thomas