[Hackage] #462: Automatic rebuild of depending packages once failed dependency re-uploaded and builds.

[Hackage]

#462: Automatic rebuild of depending packages once failed dependency re-uploaded
and builds.
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  Reporter:  golubovsky         |        Owner:                
      Type:  enhancement        |       Status:  new           
  Priority:  normal             |    Milestone:  _|_           
 Component:  hackageDB website  |      Version:                
  Severity:  normal             |   Resolution:                
  Keywords:                     |   Difficulty:  hard (< 1 day)
Ghcversion:  6.10.1             |     Platform:                
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Comment (by mokus):

 Replying to [comment:6 malcolm.wallace at cs.york.ac.uk]:
 > I'm not sure I understand why the Hackage server is building packages in
 the first place.  Surely the only thing of interest is generating
 documentation - why is a full build necessary?

 That's a very good point too, and I suspect there are some cabal-
 architecture-related reasons for it - a full build is probably the easiest
 way to get the documentation to build, especially when you consider the
 way cabal builds can depend non-trivially on the set of installed packages
 or really anything else the Setup.hs file wants to check.

 I for one agree that I only really care whether my documentation gets
 built, though.  I've been a bit annoyed lately because of things like the
 bytestring 0.9.1.5 update, not so much because of the build-failure black
 mark my project gets as a result but because it also keeps my
 documentation from building.  As I mentioned a few minutes ago at the end
 of my comment at
 http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/598#comment:2, I believe
 that many users are put off a package much more by lack of easily-
 accessible documentation than by the fact that it didn't build on some
 particular machine.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/462#comment:7>
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