[Haskell-cafe] Hackage package "synopsis" sections

[Brandon Allbery]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 2:21 AM, Mike Izbicki <mike at izbicki.me> wrote:

> Some of this information is very out of place on hackage, some of it
> is duplication of the standard fields in the cabal file, and some of
> it is just not things that a new user needs to see on their first
> visit to the package documentation.
>

I question that; a README is pretty much the first thing I end up digging
for when looking at something on Hackage. (I really like how github formats
the README for a repo automatically. I'm lukewarm on GH otherwise but that
one feature is very useful.)

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