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

Jelle van der Waa jelle at vdwaa.nl
Sun Dec 18 05:31:09 EST 2011


On 18/12/11 09:53, Jelle van der Waa wrote:
> 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 packages as they are so far out of date.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.
> 

Btw adopted xmonad,xmonad-contrib, these packages will be updated today.

-- 
Jelle van der Waa

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