[Haskell-cafe] The instability of Haskell libraries

Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com
Fri Apr 23 18:51:21 EDT 2010


Thomas Hartman <tphyahoo at gmail.com> writes:
> 1) The buildbot will catch dependencies with compile errors, but only
> after the package has been pushed, and there is no easy way for
> packagers to check that this won't happen

Don't forget, there are valid reasons why hackage will sometimes fail to
build a package: missing C libraries, wrong operating system, etc.

Also, it would be nice if the build bot separates the building test from
the haddock generation: I've seen quite a few packages where it builds
successfully but then _haddock_ fails for one reason or another, thus
breaking the package.

-- 
Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Ivan.Miljenovic at gmail.com
IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com


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