Re: Haskell Platform support in Gentoo

2015-06-09 Thread Ben Gamari
Alexander V Vershilov writes: > Hi, Ben. > Hi Alexander! Thanks for the quick reply. > It appears that due to the official procedure it takes a large amount of time > to stabilize platform. We are trying to have latest platform in tree as soon > as it is available, and stabilization take a larg

Re: Time files... and here's another alpha HP for 7.10

2015-06-09 Thread George Colpitts
I uninstalled, reinstalled , did a cabal install of haddock then ghc-core and threadscope and saw no errors so I guess we are fine as long as the next version includes the latest haddock. I notice on the 7.10.2 active tickets page there is a ticket saying that 7.10.2 needs the latest haddock. On T

Re: Time files... and here's another alpha HP for 7.10

2015-06-09 Thread Mark Lentczner
When you did the cabal install of haddock, which haddock did you get? Isn't 2.16.0 the latest? And that should be what is in the Platform. I guess I should check that the haddock in GHC is actually 2.16.0! ​ ___ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-plat

Re: Haskell Platform support in Gentoo

2015-06-09 Thread Mark Lentczner
First and foremost, the packagers for a specific OS distribution should know best how to match the needs and customs of their constituent communities. It is not uncommon for packaging to end up shipping something slightly patched from an official release of a program. And, if it is the custom of a

MacPorts and Homebrew

2015-06-09 Thread Ben Gamari
Do we have a plan for offering Haskell Platform packaging via MacPorts or Homebrew? Some users regard these systems as Linux users regard their distribution's package manager: they should be used if at all possible. To quote a friend of mine, > Also, the page should (if it doesn't) address the us

Re: MacPorts and Homebrew

2015-06-09 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Ben Gamari wrote: > Do we have a plan for offering Haskell Platform packaging via MacPorts > or Homebrew? Some users regard these systems as Linux users > regard their distribution's package manager: they should be used if at > all possible. To quote a friend of m

Re: MacPorts and Homebrew

2015-06-09 Thread Ben Gamari
Brandon Allbery writes: > On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Ben Gamari wrote: > >> Do we have a plan for offering Haskell Platform packaging via MacPorts >> or Homebrew? Some users regard these systems as Linux users >> regard their distribution's package manager: they should be used if at >> all

Re: MacPorts and Homebrew

2015-06-09 Thread Mark Lentczner
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > Can we have the platform-description-via-cabal-file back? That made it > easy to use cabal-to-Portfile tooling, > ? It never left? Only now the haskell-platform.cabal is a built file, not directly in the repo. See the source tar ball distr

Re: MacPorts and Homebrew

2015-06-09 Thread Mark Lentczner
A known pitfall for all is that the OS X native installer package, and MacPorts build with different install paths, and different library assumptions. I don't know if Homebrew does it yet differently or is the same as MacPorts. This is a constant source of difficultly for users that unwittingly mo

Re: MacPorts and Homebrew

2015-06-09 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 11:30 PM, Mark Lentczner wrote: > A known pitfall for all is that the OS X native installer package, and > MacPorts build with different install paths, and different library > assumptions. I don't know if Homebrew does it yet differently or is the > same as MacPorts. > Tha