On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Daniel Micay <danielmicay@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 09/04/14 11:12 PM, Allan McRae wrote: >> 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 Indeed, it's still active. Not steaming-full-ahead-lika-a-freight-train active, but we're bringing in updates and adding new packages at a somewhat leasurely pace :) The tool that makes it possible is cblrepo - https://github.com/magthe/cblrepo Beyond that there are a few scripts that makes the chore of keeping packages up-to-date largely automated. The experience is that a single person can keep over 200 packages up-to-date with spending about 15-30 minutes per week. The builds of course take longer than that (sometimes much longer), but they don't require active monitoring. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx jabber: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus
