I'd also like to encourage the arch-haskell team to talk to Michael on this. The current Haskell repos have made things so much better than they were even a year ago, but if we can get behind a rising tide to lift all boats, I'd love to see that happen. I am still end user / novice enough to feel unqualified to evaluate Michael's proposals on a technical level other than they seem reasonable, maintainable and scalable as far as I can see. He's out in front on this, which is what Haskell needs right now. Let's get involved.
-Ethan http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Michael Snoyman <mich...@snoyman.com>wrote: > I definitely think there's a lot of room for collaboration here. I've been > in touch with maintainers for other Linux distributions, and I think > Stackage could become a project where different distros are all able to > work together. Stackage is also set up in a way right now that seems to fit > Arch's rolling release cycle. > > To start off with, I would recommend using Stackage as a way to get a list > of packages and their versions which work together correctly (the generated > build-plan.log). You could then use automate a process to make Arch > versions of all those packages. > > Stackage provides a library in addition to an executable, and it can be > extended to provide support for whatever facilities you need. This would > also allow you to add in packages which are not currently part of the > "official" Stackage set of packages. By using Stackage, you'll get a few > benefits: > > * A tool which is well tested for confirming that packages work well > together. > * The ability to work with other developers outside of Arch to improve > this tooling. > * As a community resource, I think Stackage stands a better chance of > getting necessary modifications merged upstream. I've so far had very > positive responses from package maintainers I've interacted with; I don't > think a requested change has yet taken over a week to get implemented. > > All that said, I'm not intimately familiar with the Arch Haskell processes > and what hurdles you're trying to overcome. If you have concrete > objectives, let me know what they are, and I'd be happy to figure out with > you if Stackage would help achieve them. > > Michael > > > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 5:55 AM, Ramana Kumar <ram...@member.fsf.org>wrote: > >> Dear Michael, Arch Haskell, >> >> I saw this in the Haskell Weekly News recently: >> http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2012/11/stable-vetted-hackage >> >> I would like to propose that Arch Linux and the Hackage-packaging >> community project therein also be involved :) >> >> Some information about the Arch Haskell project is here >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Haskell_package_guidelines >> >> I believe yesod and its dependencies, for example, are available in our >> [haskell-web] repository, and we (mainly Fabian and Magnus) are doing a >> great job of keeping it all working and up-to-date. >> How might this interface with stackage? >> >> Do you (on either side) see potential for collaboration? >> >> Cheers, >> Ramana >> > > > _______________________________________________ > arch-haskell mailing list > arch-haskell@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-haskell > >
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