Fwd: The case for tweaking .cabal files of existing uploaded packages

Malcolm Wallace malcolm.wallace at me.com
Thu May 27 05:52:44 EDT 2010


>> I would like to go
>> further in future. In the new hackage server I would like to make it
>> possible to edit -- to a highly limited degree -- the .cabal files of
>> existing packages. This would mainly be for meta-data (descriptions,
>> URLs, etc) but more interestingly to adjust version constraints if  
>> they
>> are found to be too lax or too tight.

+1 from me.

Regards,
     Malcolm



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