Debian has a large team curating the packages. On Mar 1, 2013 6:56 PM, "Ian Lynagh" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 10:33:39AM -0800, Johan Tibell wrote: > > > > It's the only model I believe scales to e.g. executables that depend on > > thousands of packages > > Debian has approximately 30,000 packages (although admittedly I don't > know how many are libraries), and only needs a single version of each > package. > > Having a single version of each package (with Hackage using a system > similar to Debian's releases and 'testing' to define the sets of package > versions) would make life a lot easier: > > Library maintainers don't need to worry so much about keeping packages > working with old versions of their dependencies. > > Authors know that they can use any 2 packages together, and not have to > worry about one of those packages depending on foo 1.* and the other > depending on foo 2.*. > > The intractible problem of testing all combinations of versions of > dependencies, to ensure that packages really do build in all the > circumstances that they claim they do, disappears. > > > Thanks > Ian > > > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >
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