[Haskell-cafe] Diffs for hackage

Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com
Sat Aug 13 14:18:25 CEST 2011


On 13 August 2011 20:57, Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de> wrote:
> Maybe it would already help to add a "changelog-file" field to .cabal,
> just as with license-file, and reject packages on hackage that do not
> have this field and file, and later decide if we need a more
> standardized format for changelogs.

I agree, but it would be nice to also have optional readme-file,
todo-file and doc-files fields (the latter to let us avoid banging
documentation in with "extra-source-files").

As for a standardised format... I'm not sure if we need to enforce a
particular format, as long as it's understandable.

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Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
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