Hi, Am Sonntag, den 22.08.2010, 10:55 +0100 schrieb Andrew Coppin: > Browsing around Hackage, I notice that a seemingly random subset of > packages are available for something called "arch linux". Presumably > some sort of automatic conversion system is involved, but does anyone > know why only certain packages appear? > > I've noticed that both Debian and OpenSUSE have a very tiny selection of > binary Haskell packages too. I'm guessing that these packages are also > auto-generated, but presumably selected by hand. (I also don't recall > seeing them listed on Hackage.) Anybody know about that?
I wouldn’t call almost 200 packages¹ a „very tiny selection“ :-) These packages are not auto-generated, but still hand-built and hand-uploaded in every version. The Haskell Team makes selects the packages, decides whether a version updated is required (for example changes that only fix the buildability on win32 do not warrant an upload to Debian) and fixes bugs. This should be a very stable base with most important libraries to build on, without any "cabal hell". More information can be found on http://wiki.debian.org/Haskell. The distro listing on hackages was actually implemented by me a while ago, the text file Ivan mentioned can be found on http://people.debian.org/~nomeata/cabalDebianMap.txt and is generated daily by a cron job. Greetings, Joachim ¹ http://pkg-haskell.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/pet.cgi plus a few packages not maintained by the team -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner mail: [email protected] | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Key: 4743206C JID: [email protected] | http://www.joachim-breitner.de/ Debian Developer: [email protected]
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