Iain Lane wrote: > * Would you have us remove Haskell from Debian stable and Ubuntu > stable releases?
No. > * Why is Haskell in a privileged/special position here when compared > to other languages? Haskell is different from most other languages because every new compiler and library version is binary incompatible with previous versions. The only other language in Debian that I am aware of that has a similar problem is Ocaml. Also, no other langauge is moving a quickly as haskell (expecially not Ocaml). > What should we do about it? I feel that for debian stable we should make it possible to access versions of haskell packages backported from testing. Ubuntu could do the same. > who is being made to feel demotivated about his Haskell packaging work I have used cabal-install and I still think debian packages are a far superior way of managing haskell packages on debian based systems. That makes it worthwhile. Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
