Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of HackageDB

Timestamp:

01/12/07 17:28:19 (6 years ago)

Author:

ross@…

Comment:

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HackageDB

@@ -3 +3 @@
 HackageDB is a pool of Cabal packages, like [http://www.cpan.org CPAN],
 [http://caml.inria.fr/pub/old_caml_site/humps/ the Caml Humps] or [http://cean.process-one.net/ CEAN], except for Haskell.
- * [http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/unstable/ initial collection]
+
+== Web interface ==
+
+There is a [http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/hackage.html basic web interface] to the Hackage database.
+It presents a simple listing of packages, and has forms for checking and uploading packages.
+The source code is available via
+ * `darcs get` [http://darcs.haskell.org/hackage-scripts]
+For future enhancement plans, see HackageToDo.
 
 == Structure ==
@@ -9 +16 @@
 A package collection is a directory with a simple structure:
  * `00-index.tar.gz`
+ * `log`
  * ''pkg''/
     * ''pkgid''`.cabal`
@@ -17 +25 @@
 The collection may contain several versions of a particular package.
 
+For example, see the [http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/ package collection] underlying the above interface.
+
 ''Suggestion:'' replace the index with a concatenation of the `.cabal` files with some separator (say `@`), and having both gzipped and uncompressed versions.
 
-== Browsing the package database ==
+== Old stuff ==
 
-A web interface for browsing the package database is currently in beta.
-The source is available via
+The source to an earlier web interface is available via
  * `darcs get` [http://darcs.haskell.org/~lemmih/hackagedb]
 
-Another experiment web interface is [http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/hackage.html]. This interface allows package upload as well as browsing.
-
-== Adding packages ==
-
-In addition to the experimental web interface you can add packages to the collection if you have a login on `hackage.haskell.org` and belong to the `hackage` group.
-(If that's not you, ask on the `libraries` mailing list; someone will be glad to do it for you.)
-Upload your Cabal package to that machine, login and and run
-{{{
-cabal-put MyPackage-1.2.3.tar.gz
-}}}
-The tool checks that the package has the structure produced by `cabal sdist`, and installs the package in the collection.
-
-A future goal is a mechanism for uploading packages remotely, perhaps similar to [http://www.cpan.org/modules/04pause.html The Perl Authors Upload Server].
-
-([wiki:CabalPut Client-side cabal-put] was an early prototype, but is currently defunct.)
+[wiki:CabalPut Client-side cabal-put] was an early prototype of an upload tool, but is currently defunct.