On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 12:35 AM, Jelle van der Waa <jelle@vdwaa.nl> wrote:
I would like to keep XMonad/XMobar in [community] it does seem to take up a big chunk of the haskell-* packages we have in our repos. But I've never ran into real big issues packaging haskell libraries, one minor issue is that the developers tend to oversplit packages for example haskell-data-default-* . This really makes packaging haskell libraries annoying.
I don't want to prevent people from maintaining haskell packages in supported repos. I just want to make cabal-install a path with which people don't have to think twice about.
I would prefer that we don't package vim plugins or firefox extensions. Firefox has it's own extension manager and vim has a lot of solutions which work better then pacman
I also share this belief about haskell. Both pacman and cabal-install have their own pros and cons, but for my personally, I find that cabal-install has more benefit to me personally for haskell packages.
How many haskell developers actually use our packages in the repos/aur rather then using caba-install?
I can only speak from personal experience, but I have used cabal-install exclusively for a couple of years now not just for development but for also installing tools like xmonad. My guess is that given the limited supply of packages in our repos, I can guestimate 0 use it for development but there might be a lot of users that actually use the haskell tools like xmonad.