On 08/01/11 08:36, Rémy Oudompheng wrote: > On 2011/1/7 Magnus Therning <[email protected]> wrote: >> I've just created issue 20[1] for cabal2arch. Basically there's a problem >> with the data files provided in archlinux, but used in cabal2arch. Having >> data files in a library package breaks our basic assumption that executables >> only need to makedepend on the libraries it uses. >> >> In this case I still think that we should remove the data files completely >> from the packages and only host them at a well-known URL (on >> kiwilight.com or >> haskell.org). cabal2arch should then default to use that URL, for >> development >> and testing it might be interesting to add a command line switch to load it >> from another location, a URL or file. >> >> For now I assigned the issue to Remy. Feel free to re-assign it if you want >> to. > > Since I had the patches on my local repository, I pushed them > upstream. For the moment, it still uses files, because I also think > cabal2arch should remain usable without an internet connection, and > have reproducibility properties. However, it's only a matter of > seconds to make it use > http://andromeda.kiwilight.com/~remy.oudompheng/arch-haskell/default/ > instead.
Fair enough, there is overwhelming opposition to my idea of using data files from URLs by default so I'll stop suggesting it :-) Rémy, does this change fix issue 20[1] completely then? If so I'll close it, unless you beat me to it ;-) /M [1] https://github.com/archhaskell/cabal2arch/issues#issue/20 -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: [email protected] jabber: [email protected] twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus
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