Hello, I am using Arch for two weeks, mainly becaused I got bored of ubuntu and because of the good reputation it has in the Haskell community. I am new in Haskell too by the way.
What I can say is that after playing a bit around with AUR I just dropped it and now use cabal for packages that are not in the repos. These few lines to say that I fully agree with your proposition. Best regards, Adrien Le 05/11/2011 13:44, Vesa Kaihlavirta a écrit : > Hey, > I'm writing to inform you about some action I'm planning to > takeregarding our Haskell packages. > > Current======= > The current status is this: we have in extra repo the > "HaskellPlatform" package which depends on 24 haskell libraries plus > ghc,cabal-install, alex and happy. Maintaining all these is > relativelycumbersome (although it could be made a bit nicer by some > cleverscripting) and in my opinion goes a bit against the simplicity > clauseof our beloved distro. > A bit worse is that our dependance on the haskell-platform means > thatwe cannot upgrade ghc as soon as we could. The current > platformdepends on ghc-7.0.3, and the platform's website informs > helpfully:"Next release: July 2011". People have been wishing for > ghc-7.2.1(released on 9 August 2011) for quite some time. > > Future====== > The actions I'm about to do are following: > - remove haskell-platform and all its libs from extra - only > keep ghc in extra - alex, happy and cabal-install and the libs they > need (5-10) go to community > > Since a ghc upgrade usually calls for a rebuild of every library > thathas been built on it, this and any future ghc rebuild will have > aminimum of 2 week bug-free staging period to allow all > packagemaintainers at least some time to rebuild everything that's > needed. > > Haskell binary repo=================== > I've heard that there's a separate package repo for many > haskellpackages. That seems like a good idea, especially if it's easy > tolaunch a rebuild of everything, and if it works well enough. I'd > liketo hear about that, if anyone maintaining it happens to be > listening. > > AUR=== > My humble opinion is that we do not need to support any of thehaskell- > packages in AUR in any significant way, as cabal-install doesa far > better job there than our silly wrapper around it. If people wantto > maintain them, fine. > > > > --vk > > _______________________________________________ > arch-haskell mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-haskell _______________________________________________ arch-haskell mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-haskell
