[aur-general] pandoc in community vs. pandoc-bin
Hi, Sorry for the question, but I'd like to understand if pandoc-bin in AUR offers something the new pandoc in community doesn't. Before, there was no pandoc package under the repos, and there was no really full solution but the pandoc-bin. However I'm wondering if that's already covered by pandoc in community now. Thanks, -- Javier
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Sorry for the question, but I'd like to understand if pandoc-bin in AUR offers something the new pandoc in community doesn't.
Before, there was no pandoc package under the repos, and there was no really full solution but the pandoc-bin. However I'm wondering if that's already covered by pandoc in community now.
Thanks,
-- Javier
I believe *-bin packages are traditionally the upstream precompiled, standalone binaries. There should be no difference except that the *-bin package was tested upstream and is guaranteed to work, whereas the repository/AUR package is built against the system libs and stuff, and should work (but occasionally doesn't). -- Eli Schwartz
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 10:27 PM, Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Sorry for the question, but I'd like to understand if pandoc-bin in AUR offers something the new pandoc in community doesn't.
Try to find out what compile options does the upstream -bin one use or ask on pandoc mailing list. BTW, http://pandoc.org/installing.html links to a nonexistent AUR package instead to the brand new pandoc package from the repos.
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Karol Blazewicz <karol.blazewicz@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 10:27 PM, Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Sorry for the question, but I'd like to understand if pandoc-bin in AUR offers something the new pandoc in community doesn't.
Try to find out what compile options does the upstream -bin one use or ask on pandoc mailing list. BTW, http://pandoc.org/installing.html links to a nonexistent AUR package instead to the brand new pandoc package from the repos.
It sounds the old AUR package "haskell-pandoc" pointed by "http://pandoc.org/installing.html", which is no longer available, is the same new community "pandoc" package. How complete or incomplete is that pandoc package I wouldn't know. Installing from source uses "cabal", whereas the PKGBUILD for pandoc uses "runhaskell" directly with several options. I'm not a haskell guy, so I can't tell, but it seems that pandoc plus other community pandoc packages, might be equivalent to the pandoc-bin in AUR... I'll just try it out. Thanks all, -- Javier
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 6:43 PM, Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Karol Blazewicz <karol.blazewicz@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 10:27 PM, Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Sorry for the question, but I'd like to understand if pandoc-bin in AUR offers something the new pandoc in community doesn't.
Try to find out what compile options does the upstream -bin one use or ask on pandoc mailing list. BTW, http://pandoc.org/installing.html links to a nonexistent AUR package instead to the brand new pandoc package from the repos.
It sounds the old AUR package "haskell-pandoc" pointed by "http://pandoc.org/installing.html", which is no longer available, is the same new community "pandoc" package. How complete or incomplete is that pandoc package I wouldn't know. Installing from source uses "cabal", whereas the PKGBUILD for pandoc uses "runhaskell" directly with several options.
I'm not a haskell guy, so I can't tell, but it seems that pandoc plus other community pandoc packages, might be equivalent to the pandoc-bin in AUR...
I'll just try it out.
Thanks all,
-- Javier
Oh well, dependencies, :-) pandoc-bin doesn't require a bunch of haskell packages, while pandoc (pandoc-haskell) does. So I'll stick with pandoc-bin, :-) Thanks to all again, -- Javier
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Eli Schwartz
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Javier Vasquez
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Karol Blazewicz