[arch-general] (for Vesa and other Arch Devs on the list) Re: GHC 7.4.1 or HP 2011.4.0.0??

[Magnus Therning]

This was mainly directed to the Arch Devs on the list, and especially
Vesa since he's putting in most of the work on GHC as found in
[extra].

We've already discussed the question of whether we should keep HP in
Arch.  *I* think there was clear what the favoured route ahead was,
but in the end it's the Arch Devs who decide.  I don't like the
current situation (outdated GHC and outdated HP), so a decision would
be much welcome then the work on catching up can begin.

/M

On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 04:28:28PM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
> It's been out for a day now... this would be a good time to decide
> whether ArchLinux should be bold and move to a haskell-platform-free
> state, or trudge on with HP and the ache it causes.
> 
> If we're moving to 7.4.1 there's a lot of work with getting
> ArchHaskell in shape for it, so the longer notice the better :)
> 
> If we're to trudge on with HP then we really ought to move to
> 2011.4.0.0, which also means a new version of GHC and a lot of work on
> ArchHaskell, so the longer notice the better :)
> 
> Please, please, please, can we move on this soon?
> 
> I'm available to help out with [extra]&[community] packages if need
> be, updating PKGBUILDs, building, verifying other's changes, etc.
> 
> /M
> 
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