2011/12/20 Magnus Therning <mag...@therning.org> > Den 20 dec 2011 04:58 skrev "Bernardo Barros" <bernardobarr...@gmail.com>: > > > Arch is not a testing distro... And it's not even up to date with > > Haskell Platform. If you want to "go faster them haskell platform" you > > will need to work hard with packaging testing and this seems NOT the > > case with Arch at the moment... > > I don't think it's quite that easy. AFAIU we'll soon have a choice to > make, either stick to HP with an old version of GHC, or move to the latest > stable GHC (7.4) and drop HP proper. > > Personally, I'm in favour of the latter. > > /M > *From Arch Linux About page:* Arch strives to stay bleeding edge, and typically offers the latest stable versions of most software. [...] Arch Linux uses a "rolling release" system which allows one-time installation and perpetual software upgrades. ... and many other interesting feautres that made me love this distribution.
Haskell Platform is not bleeding edge, it seems to follow a "old versions are more stable" approach, more in the way of Debian. This approach has is merits, but I prefer the "Arch way", so I vote for dropping HP. Actually Ghc is not the problem. Most packages in hackage are already builded with ghc-7.2, but 7.2 is testing, so we should use 7.04. The problem are the other packages: for example every update that depends upon * text* failed because in HP (until some days ago) the version was too old. In a couple of months this package will be too old again and will break other packages, unless we update haskell packages twice a year. IMHO, if cabal installs the latest available hackage, we sholud simply do the same. Fabio
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