HTTP haskell package

[Bjorn Bringert]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Christian Maeder
<Christian.Maeder at dfki.de> wrote:
> Why are the version numbers that big?
>
>  3000.0.0
>  3001.0.0
>  ...
>  3001.0.4
>
>  One (general) problem about different package versions on hackage for me
>  is: the missing documentation of what has actually changed.
>
>  Cheers Christian


For historical reasons. The HTTP version numbers used to be
date-based, e.g. 2006.11.15. To preserve ordering when we switched to
major.minor versions, the numbering started at 3000.0.0.

Perhaps we could show darcs change logs on hackage. For this we need a
repository field in the .cabal file.

/Bjorn