On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com> wrote:
On 09/04/14 11:12 PM, Allan McRae wrote:
Now that aside is finished, what is the deal with that arch-haskell group? Is it still going? Would they want to provide packages officially instead?
It's definitely still active. They seem to have all the necessary automation worked out. AFAICT they do an automated conversion from the cabal files and maintain a set of patches for adding external dependencies, etc.
Indeed, it's still active. Not steaming-full-ahead-lika-a-freight-train active, but we're bringing in updates and adding new packages at a somewhat leasurely pace :) The tool that makes it possible is cblrepo - https://github.com/magthe/cblrepo Beyond that there are a few scripts that makes the chore of keeping packages up-to-date largely automated. The experience is that a single person can keep over 200 packages up-to-date with spending about 15-30 minutes per week. The builds of course take longer than that (sometimes much longer), but they don't require active monitoring. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus