On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Dmitry Marakasov <[email protected]> wrote: > What's the purpose for renaming them at all?
All of them are transcripts of Cabal packages coming from HackageDB [1]. > In the first place, those are end-user applications named darcs, xmonad etc. And some of them are applications as well. I would like to achieve a consistent naming to see what is coming from there and what is not. (For example, lang/pugs, deskutils/checkrdf or devel/lhs2TeX are not from there but still written in Haskell). As a next step, I would like to port Haskell Platform [2] to FreeBSD, so the users can decide whether they want to use hackages from ports or simply use HP and use cabal-install to add packages. These two alternatives would be mutually exclusive since using cabal-install interferes with the Ports Collection. Using FreeBSD ports has its usual advantages (binary install, correct dependencies, things build out-of-the-box, etc.), while using HP would mean a direct access to the "bleeding edge" of Haskell software with compilation from sources and a risk that packages might not build. > should be named darcs and xmonad correspondingly, regardless of > language they're written in and regardless of whether they install > modules for that language. Sorry that I did not discuss this idea in front of a larger audience in advance. I thought (perhaps I was wrong) that these ports are not used by so many users, so it is an acceptable cost. Of course, I am happy to have comments on the subject, I am very interested in the generic feedback. Cheers, :g [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/ [2] http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
