On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 10:58 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > Duncan Coutts wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 14:04 -0700, Clifford Beshers wrote: > >> Oh, duh, there's a cabal package for it. That should make it trivial, > >> once cabal-debian is up to snuff. I ran it (cabal-debian) and it > >> failed because we don't have all the opengl packages set up right, > >> there were some version problems which I suspect is the result of > >> recent work, and there was a build error because of missing haddock > >> files, but all in all those look pretty easy to clean up. > > > > The one thing to watch out for is that the haskell-platform.cabal > > meta-package doesn't mention the programs that are part of the platform, > > ie alex, happy, haddock and cabal-install. > > That is of course not something the Debian meta-package will have any > problem with since DEBs don't suffer from that particular limitation.
Oh course, I just meant that if you do a direct translation from the .cabal file then you'd miss those packages. > > The definitive list is currently here: > > http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/Library/VersionMatrix#PlatformPackages > > in the column for 2009.0.0 > > > > We'll move that list to a page on it's own along with some guidance for > > distros. > > The most noticeable thing is the old versions for regex-*. Yes, these are the versions that came with the "extralibs" and all the binary installers for ghc-6.10.x. > Is there already a plan for the next release, one that catches up > with what's on Hackage? The maintainer of the regex packages has already proposed that we update to the latest versions. I fully expect that's what we'll do in the next major release. I hope we will also agree to update to QC 2. However I think we will be sticking with parsec 2.x for the time being. Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-platform mailing list [email protected] http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform
