robustify & release cabal-get

[paolo]

Plan towards the goal of making cabal-get working in local installs:

The high-level details can be found in this ticket and the ones it links to. These should probably be cleaned up a bit.

TODO

1. Deploy hackageDB directory hierarchy as  here.
   • test cabal-get on your local directory hierarchy, coordinate w/ audrey to understand how to do this, or ask Isaac for help
   • finish implementing the "put" program  found here.
     • the only probelm with it is that 00-latest.txt isn't generated correctly yet
   • Deploy directories and "put" on monk
   • consider changing the format of 00-latest.txt
     • do we want md5sums there?
   • upload all work and publically announce end of first phase
2. Finish up the work started on ticket #65.
   • Fix the churns in dependencies hierarchy
   • Take xml-rpc away completely
   • Chase the other dependencies
3. Simplify hackageDB architecture
   • Take xml-rpc away from here too
   • Take the web frontend away for now, or update it to use the 00-latest.txt

DONE

1. Get cabal, cabal-get buildable on student computer locally

[nominolo]

This seems to be obsolete. Can someone check please?

[duncan]

Yes, this is pretty old. We've deployed hackageDB and made releases of cabal-upload and cabal-install.