[arch-general] GHC 7.4.1 or HP 2011.4.0.0??

[Thomas Dziedzic]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 12:07:13PM -0600, Thomas Dziedzic wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
>>> We ought to be ashamed, Debian unstable now has GHC 7.4.1! ;)
>>> http://packages.debian.org/sid/ghc
>>>
>>> In the meantime I've put together a repo with GHC 7.4.1 (x86_64
>>> only) and a few packages: http://is.gd/L7ZBQC
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I will be working with vega in around 2 weeks to update ghc and
>> cleaning up the haskell pkgs.
>> I'm not working on it right now because I'm currently focusing on
>> cleaning up our ruby package and guidelines.
>> Vega is working on a tool to help us with the update.
>
> All right, so it's coming that's good :-)
>
> Am I to understand that this means HP will go?
>

That's the plan so far.

> In the meantime I'll try to build as many of the packages in
> [extra]/[community] as possible.  That ought to be useful to you later
> on, particularly if any patches are necessary.
>

This would be really awesome if you found the time to do this
especially if you found any breakages and patches that fixed those.

> /M
>
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