Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cleaning up the Debian act (report from the trenches)

2008-08-31 Thread Magnus Therning
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:20 PM, David Bremner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ketil Malde wrote: Another Debian question, once I've populated the debian/ directory one way or another, how should this be integrated with the rest of the project? Should it be part of the darcs archive, or a separate

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cleaning up the Debian act (report from the trenches)

2008-08-27 Thread Ketil Malde
Jason Dagit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2) Compile GHC yourself. I find with Debian this is the way to go. Ouch. Okay, I've compiled GHC once. But I would like end-users to be able to use my software, and I simply cannot require them to go through this. Install your system and use Debian's

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cleaning up the Debian act (report from the trenches)

2008-08-27 Thread David Roundy
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 1:58 AM, Jason Dagit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) Compile GHC yourself. You can even compile and install GHC (and most Haskell software) on a dedicated user account. In this way you avoid messing up you Debian installation if something goes wrong. I find with Debian

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cleaning up the Debian act (report from the trenches)

2008-08-27 Thread David House
2008/8/25 Ketil Malde [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1. Etch comes with ghc-6.6, and that didn't work with my .cabal file. Is it not an option to make your software work with the not-quite-latest compiler? 6.8 is less than a year old, so I imagine 6.6 is still in quite a few major distro's stable

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cleaning up the Debian act (report from the trenches)

2008-08-27 Thread Ketil Malde
David House [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. Etch comes with ghc-6.6, and that didn't work with my .cabal file. Is it not an option to make your software work with the not-quite-latest compiler? Yes it is, although I don't have the details either. Neither do I have an Etch system around, but

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cleaning up the Debian act (report from the trenches)

2008-08-27 Thread David Bremner
Ketil Malde wrote: Neither do I have an Etch system around, but I should probably install a virtual machine or something. Ideally, I should work out the minimal requirements (including for dependencies, and for dependencies' dependencies), but in practice, I end up depending on whatever is

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cleaning up the Debian act (report from the trenches)

2008-08-27 Thread Don Stewart
ketil: Jason Dagit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2) Compile GHC yourself. I find with Debian this is the way to go. Ouch. Okay, I've compiled GHC once. But I would like end-users to be able to use my software, and I simply cannot require them to go through this. Yes, scary and

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cleaning up the Debian act (report from the trenches)

2008-08-27 Thread David Bremner
Ketil Malde wrote: Another Debian question, once I've populated the debian/ directory one way or another, how should this be integrated with the rest of the project? Should it be part of the darcs archive, or a separate archive (foo-debian), or what? How do people organize this? [EMAIL

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cleaning up the Debian act (report from the trenches)

2008-08-26 Thread Jason Dagit
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Mads Lindstrøm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ketil Malde wrote: I've had an interested user, who tried to get one of my programs to run on a Debian machine - running Debian Etch, released a couple of months ago. Here are some of the hurdles stumbled upon in

[Haskell-cafe] Cleaning up the Debian act (report from the trenches)

2008-08-25 Thread Ketil Malde
I've had an interested user, who tried to get one of my programs to run on a Debian machine - running Debian Etch, released a couple of months ago. Here are some of the hurdles stumbled upon in the process: 1. Etch comes with ghc-6.6, and that didn't work with my .cabal file. 2. ghc-6.8.3,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cleaning up the Debian act (report from the trenches)

2008-08-25 Thread David Bremner
Ketil Malde wrote: I've had an interested user, who tried to get one of my programs to run on a Debian machine - running Debian Etch, released a couple of months ago. Your user is pretty much at the pessimal point in the release cycle. Etch is more than a year old, and lenny (the next

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cleaning up the Debian act (report from the trenches)

2008-08-25 Thread Mads Lindstrøm
Hi Ketil Malde wrote: I've had an interested user, who tried to get one of my programs to run on a Debian machine - running Debian Etch, released a couple of months ago. Here are some of the hurdles stumbled upon in the process: Debian Etch were released in April 8th, 2007. 16 months ago.