Request: multiple categories for libraries

Ross Paterson ross at soi.city.ac.uk
Tue Jan 16 02:26:51 EST 2007


On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 06:12:38PM -0800, Conal Elliott wrote:
> To be more clear, I meant my request in the context of Cabal & Hackage.  I'd
> like to give a comma-separated list of categories (tags) in my .cabal,
> register it with Hackage, and have my package show up under each named
> category in http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pkg-list.html .

It's already there (though undocumented), e.g. the Win32 package has

	category: System, Graphics

but people think we need something more elaborate, see

	http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/wiki/HackageToDo



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