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

[Magnus Therning]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:00:12AM +0100, Cédric Girard wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Magnus Therning  wrote:
> 
> > >> Second, my own experience lead me to disable [haskell] repository
> > >> on my computers because some packages were out of date but where
> > >> picked before AUR ones by the aur helper I use.
> > >
> > > Hence the confusion around this issue. If Haskell AUR packages are
> > > indeed being deprecated then is [haskell] now more of a definitive
> > > source or is it *also* not well maintained?
> >
> > I'd say it's fairly well maintained.
> 
> Well maybe my experience on this is not the latest. Last time I
> tried [haskell] was some months ago and I believe there was some
> changes in the arch-haskell team since.
> 
> Anyway some of the old arch-haskell PKGBUILDs in the AUR have been
> adopted since the mass orphan and I think the situation will get
> better there as maintenance will be spread among more people.

I on the other hand suspect it won't get much better at all :-)  There
is a real risk that having several maintainers will result in packages
that, while they are up-to-date, don't play well together.

/M

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