[Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com
Tue May 7 10:21:13 CEST 2013


On 7 May 2013 17:36, Ilya Portnov <portnov at iportnov.ru> wrote:
> Hi Cafe.
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>> I have thought that a more interesting metric might be to send the
>> maintainer an email when their package stops building automatically on
>> hackage.
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> I think, this is "must have" feature for new hackage. If error was occured
> during build, send email to maintainer:

Except that there are various reasons a package won't build on Hackage:

* Temporary glitch with another Haskell dependency (e.g. package Foo
depends upon Bar-x.*; maintainer of Bar uploads a new point release of
Bar that fails to build just before Foo's maintainer uploads the new
version, thus the build server picks the buggy version of Bar and thus
the new version of Foo fails to build).

* Requires a foreign library that isn't installed on the Hackage build server.

* OS-dependent.

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Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
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http://IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com



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