[arch-general] Haskell Support Was: [arch-haskell] Xmonad version?

Jelle van der Waa jelle at vdwaa.nl
Sun Dec 18 03:53:40 EST 2011


On 17/12/11 23:07, Ethan Schoonover wrote:
> There was a recent Arch-Haskell thread about dumping most of AUR
> Haskell packages:
> http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/arch-haskell/2011-November/001744.html
> 
> As an end user, I effectively ignore the official Arch Haskell
> packages as they are so far out of date. I'm also now trying to
> disregard most of the AUR since I came across that thread. Haskell is
> starting to feel fragile on Arch.
> 
> 
> What about moving *all* Haskell related packages to the Haskell Arch
> repo? All the Haskell Platform stuff, alex, happy, etc.
> 
> 
> Ethan Schoonover
> Github/Freenode: altercation - Solarized: http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 13:44, Ionut Biru <biru.ionut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 12/17/2011 11:41 PM, Bernardo Barros wrote:
>>> Haskell platform was released with the latest stable GHC (7.0.4 of course).
>>>
>>> Guys, what's happening with haskell support in Arch?
>>>
>>> Xmonad, and now GHC and lots of packages in the supported repos are
>>> not keeping update with upstream.
>>
>> i vote for dropping xmonad and all packages to aur and let the community
>> handle them.
>>
>> it seems we are not doing a great job at keeping them up to date.
>>
>> --
>> Ionuț
Hi,


What are the real troubling haskell packages? Only GHC, haskell-platform
and XMonad?

I'll speak with Vesa about XMonad, i might be able to adopt it.

-- 
Jelle van der Waa

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