[aur-general] 500 Haskell packages now in AUR

[Don Stewart]

ralsina:
> On Wednesday 20 August 2008 13:34:57 Don Stewart wrote:
> > ralsina:
> > > On Wednesday 20 August 2008 13:15:29 Loui wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 09:09:48AM -0700, Don Stewart wrote:
> > > > > 10 weeks after the Arch Haskell group started, there are now 500
> > > > > Haskell packages bundled up for Arch.
> > > > >
> > > > > I've written about how we automated the construction of Arch packages
> > > > > from Haskell Cabal format, via the cabal2arch tool, and a small
> > > > > survey of 10 nice packages from the set, here,
> > > > >
> > > > >     http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/blog/2008/08/21#the_500
> > > > >
> > > > > Cheers,
> > > > >   Don
> > > >
> > > > Nice. Maybe AUR should be rewritten in Haskell too. Ha Ha.
> > >
> > > Is anyone interested on a similar approach to Python's PyPI? It sounds
> > > like a fun project!
> >
> > The main Haskell package index, Hackage, much like PyPI, has just been
> > rewritten using HAppS (http://happs.org/) -- it'll be going live soon.
> 
> Sorry, I miswrote!
> 
> I meant "apply something similar to this to Python's PyPI, so Arch gets a 
> bunch of python packages" ;-)

Ah, I see. Well, I wrote a little bit about what makes it feasible.
Basically, a clear package dependency spec, that doesn't rely on runtime
initialisation. 

Following the model of the cabal2arch tool might just work.

-- Don