[Hackage] #251: link to the latest version of a package tar file
Thomas Schilling
nominolo at googlemail.com
Wed Feb 27 18:19:04 EST 2008
> Dan Corson suggests:
> it would be good to have links
> to latest versions of a package file available for download.
I agree.
> for example:
> something like
> {{{
> http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/arrows/latest.tar.gz
> }}}
> would be a link to
> {{{
> http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/arrows/0.4/
> arrows-0.4.tar.gz
> }}}
> this would greatly simplify automating installs.
I don't agree. Automated installs should not blindly grab the latest
version. cabal-install is the right tool for automatic installs.
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