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

[Magnus Therning]

On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 09:53:40AM +0100, Jelle van der Waa wrote:
[...]
> What are the real troubling haskell packages? Only GHC,
> haskell-platform and XMonad?

I'm not sure any of them are troubling.  This is my view on it:

- GHC is a big package, but Vesa is doing a good job keeping it
  up-to-date.  Currently it *looks* like it lagging behind upstream,
  but that's caused by a strange move to use an even/release version
  number for a tech-preview release.
- IMNSHO HP doesn't have a place in Arch, it should be dropped and
  instead the individual packages should be updated as new versions
  are available.  See a recent discussion on the ArchHaskell mailing
  list.
- Xmonad is far from troubling, it just needs an update that for some
  reason have been overlooked.

/M

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