On 09/04/14 11:12 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > On 10/04/14 12:58, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 12:07 AM, Magnus Therning <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: >>>> >>>> I'm guessing this means cabal-install now is the only package outside >>>> of [community] that uses ghc to build. Is that right? >>>> >> That would be correct. >> >> >>>> Is the plan then that any future tools (i.e. non-libraries) >>>> implemented in Haskell would go into [community]? >> >> This would also be correct. I believe that most people who use packages in >> our supported repos don't actually use the haskell libraries themselves, >> but rather the tools that depend on them. (e.g. xmonad) >> I am not against keeping these tools around and their dependencies if >> someone wants to maintain them, but I personally have no interest in >> maintaining them myself. > > I am fine with this decision. Although I think it better to use a > system package manager if at all possible, I do recognise that this > takes man power that we do not have for haskell. People still have the > option of using the AUR over cabal-install if they want to use the > package manager (or system wide installs - is cabal-install a per user > thing?) > > <aside> > In my ideal situation, we would have a team of people for each of the > "major" programming languages who would determine packaging policy and > provide packages for many of the libraries for that language. Sort of > like how we have multiple people who deal with KDE and GNOME updates. > With a team based setup, it would be easier to have more junior people > brought on to help. > </aside> > > Now that aside is finished, what is the deal with that arch-haskell > group? Is it still going? Would they want to provide packages > officially instead? It's definitely still active. They seem to have all the necessary automation worked out. AFAICT they do an automated conversion from the cabal files and maintain a set of patches for adding external dependencies, etc. https://github.com/archhaskell
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