Hi shelarcy wrote: > Hi, > Can you make ghc 6.8's Debian package? > > On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:50:21 +0900, Jeremy O'Donoghue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Binary packages are available from the wxHaskell download site at > > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=73133, for the > > following platforms: > > > > - Debian > > I recived question for Debian's pacakage in Japanese Haskell mailing-list > (haskell-jp). > > http://www.tom.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~sakai/w3ml/w3ml.cgi/haskell-jp-2/msg/180 > > He uses ghc 6.8 on Debian. So, he want to know about that why debian's > package is only ghc 6.6's one, and can we release ghc 6.8's package. > > I checked Debian's package site. And it seems that debian provides ghc > 6.8 for many platforms.
Yes, that is true. But they are for Debian unstable. I think that providing a wxHaskell version that will work on Debian stable is most important. But of cause, we can provide both. If you do not know about the different versions of Debian, this http://www.debian.org/releases/index.en.html may be helpful. But providing packages for the unstable branch is not unproblematic. Unstable is a moving target which changes constantly. Thus, what works this week, may not work the next :( I am also wondering how your countrymen's setup actually is. Are they running Debian stable + few packages from unstable? Do they run stable and compile and install GHC 6.8 themselves? Do they run a system with packages from only the unstable branch? Or something different? I am _not_ saying we should not try to support users of Debian unstable. I am saying that they should expect higher risks that something is not working. But I guess if they run unstable, they already do... It is hard to test the different Debian setups properly without having different installations. I am therefore in the process of downloading Debian, clearing up harddisk space and finally installing Debian to another partition. The upside is that it will make better testing possible. The downside is that people will have to wait a little with packages for unstable. No promises, but I expect to have something ready by the end of the weekend. Greetings, Mads Lindstrøm > > http://packages.debian.org/sid/ghc6?lang=en > > Can anyone provied ghc 6.8's Debian package? > Mads, can you do that? > > > Thanks, > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ wxhaskell-devel mailing list wxhaskell-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wxhaskell-devel
