ANN: Haskell Platform 2013.2.0.0

Joachim Breitner mail at joachim-breitner.de
Sun Jun 2 23:00:26 BST 2013


Hi,

Am Donnerstag, den 30.05.2013, 16:15 +0100 schrieb Ian Lynagh:
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 08:03:48AM -0700, Mark Lentczner wrote:
> > A pet peeve of mine is that haskell packages rarely have discoverable
> > change logs. Cabal & Hackage, while inducing so many other good practices,
> > have no support for change logs. Even just a line like:  Change-Log:
> > CHANGES pointing to a file in the distribution would be a help!
> 
> I agree. I'd like to see a lightweight, standard changelog format for
> Haskell packages. That way hackage could type-set it nicely, and cabal
> could easily answer "what's new in somepackage-latest compared to the
> version I have installed?".
> 
> I don't really mind what the format looks like, but the Debian changelog
> format seems as reasonable a starting point as any.

some discussions just keep popping up again and again:
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2011-August/094613.html

Greetings,
Joachim
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