On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Magnus Therning <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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]. > You might want to contact Vesa directly. He might not be following this ML. > 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 current situation (outdated GHC and outdated HP), so a decision would 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 >> >> -- >> Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 >> email: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx jabber: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx >> twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus > > -- > Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 > email: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx jabber: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx > twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus > > Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with > millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural > integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. > -- Alan Kay
