nomeata: > Hi, > > Am Donnerstag, den 07.05.2009, 17:55 -0500 schrieb John Goerzen: > > > Can anyone update me on the status of Debian support for the Haskell > > > Platform? > > > > > > http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/ > > > > There has been talk on the mailing list about it. We'd probably make > > haskell-platform a metapackage that depends on all the components. We > > need to regress some of the components to older versions first, though. > > I've not been directly involved so someone else can speak better. > > (just some random thoughts:) > > But does that mean that those libraries that are in the haskell platform > are not going to be update in Debian (unless the haskell platform is > updated)? Not sure if that suits all our users – some might be waiting > for the improvements in newer versions. > > We could make libghc6-pkgname-platform-dev packages that follow the > platform version, and our regular libghc6-pkgname-dev packages keep > tracking upstream. AFAIK Cabal will be clever enough to pick the right > one if a users’ program requests the platform version in it’s cabal > file.
Yes, Arch is going to ship both the platform set, and lots of other stuff (and versions). > Also, how valuable will be the haskell platform in Debian stable, if > platform releases new versions every 6 months (which I read somewhere, > not sure if it’s correct)? If so, then a stable Debian release will have > an outdated platform most of it’s lifetime. Is that worse than the current situation? -- Don -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
