ralsina: > On Wednesday 20 August 2008 13:34:57 Don Stewart wrote: > > ralsina: > > > On Wednesday 20 August 2008 13:15:29 Loui wrote: > > > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 09:09:48AM -0700, Don Stewart wrote: > > > > > 10 weeks after the Arch Haskell group started, there are now 500 > > > > > Haskell packages bundled up for Arch. > > > > > > > > > > I've written about how we automated the construction of Arch packages > > > > > from Haskell Cabal format, via the cabal2arch tool, and a small > > > > > survey of 10 nice packages from the set, here, > > > > > > > > > > http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/blog/2008/08/21#the_500 > > > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > Don > > > > > > > > Nice. Maybe AUR should be rewritten in Haskell too. Ha Ha. > > > > > > Is anyone interested on a similar approach to Python's PyPI? It sounds > > > like a fun project! > > > > The main Haskell package index, Hackage, much like PyPI, has just been > > rewritten using HAppS (http://happs.org/) -- it'll be going live soon. > > Sorry, I miswrote! > > I meant "apply something similar to this to Python's PyPI, so Arch gets a > bunch of python packages" ;-)
Ah, I see. Well, I wrote a little bit about what makes it feasible. Basically, a clear package dependency spec, that doesn't rely on runtime initialisation. Following the model of the cabal2arch tool might just work. -- Don
