Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Yesod] Re: Yesod and dependencies hell

2012-02-09 Thread Michael Snoyman
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Joachim Breitner  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Donnerstag, den 09.02.2012, 11:39 + schrieb Chris Dornan:
>> (I do think that we could be delivering the tools with a little more
>> packaging that could significantly help with these situations. I have
>> found them to be highly useful in any case.)
>
> if you are content with not always having the very latest versions, you
> can use your distribution’s packages. Distributions tend to provide
> exactly one (well, at most one :-)) version of each hackage library, and
> they all go well together.
>
> But then, for a few more days, Debian sid is broken due to the GHC 7.4.1
> transition...
>
> Greetings,
> Joachim

Firstly, Yesod 0.10 is out, so if you upgrade, there shouldn't be any
more dependency hell. I'm highly optimistic that there won't be much
more of this kind of pain in the future.

As far as using distribution packages: I've recommended against it in
the past, due to the combination of Yesod's speed of development and
the lack of package coverage. However, we're getting to a point now
where Yesod development is stabilizing on solid APIs, and the
distribution packages are beginning to cover many more dependencies.
Perhaps by Yesod 1.0 (hopefully available next month), it will be a
real possibility to depend entirely on distribution packages. I might
start to experiment with that myself soon, don't be surprised if you
hear some questions from me.

Michael

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Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Yesod] Re: Yesod and dependencies hell

2012-02-09 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi,

Am Donnerstag, den 09.02.2012, 11:39 + schrieb Chris Dornan:
> (I do think that we could be delivering the tools with a little more
> packaging that could significantly help with these situations. I have
> found them to be highly useful in any case.)

if you are content with not always having the very latest versions, you
can use your distribution’s packages. Distributions tend to provide
exactly one (well, at most one :-)) version of each hackage library, and
they all go well together.

But then, for a few more days, Debian sid is broken due to the GHC 7.4.1
transition...

Greetings,
Joachim

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Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Yesod] Re: Yesod and dependencies hell

2012-02-09 Thread Chris Dornan
As somebody who has very recently started working with Yesod -- I feel your 
pain!

In truth Yesod is a huge bundle of packages, many of which aren't managed by 
the Yesod developers. I get the impression that they work very hard to keep 
everything coherent while Yesod continues its very active development. I think 
it is quite a miracle that it fits together so well under the circumstances and 
I am quite in awe of the whole development.

You seem to have been unlucky (3 days!) but I have found it to be worth it -- 
you eventually get an amazing platform.

(I do think that we could be delivering the tools with a little more packaging 
that could significantly help with these situations. I have found them to be 
highly useful in any case.)

Chris

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From: yesod...@googlegroups.com [mailto:yesod...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
Michael Snoyman
Sent: 09 February 2012 06:44
To: Никита Тимофеев
Cc: haskell-cafe@haskell.org; yesod...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [Yesod] Re: [Haskell-cafe] Yesod and dependencies hell

Are you talking about starting a new site, or running an existing site? For a 
new site, it's probably a good idea to wait until 0.10 comes out, as it 
includes a lot of nice enhancements, and we'll be releasing it this week. If an 
existing site, you probably need to have more strict upper bounds on your 
package dependencies. Without seeing your cabal file, I can't really comment 
further.

It also might be a good idea to move this discussion to the Yesod mailing list 
(CCed).

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Никита Тимофеев  wrote:
> For three days I can't compile dependencies for my project using 
> yesod, yesod-auth, yesod-persistent, persistent-template, 
> persistent-sqlite, persistent. When I varied version I received a 
> variety of broken dependencies: persistent (0.6.* vs 0.7.*), conduit
> (0.1.* vs 0.2.*), conduit-pool, path-pieces, attoparsec and something 
> else. In this regard, I have a few questions. How to build these 
> packages together? And, Michael, why so bad?
>
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