On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Fabio Riga <rifa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Il 30/04/2013 09:06, Magnus Therning ha scritto: >> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Leif Warner <abimel...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> What gives? >> >> There are a few dbus packages on hackage. The one in [haskell-core] >> is DBus (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/DBus) which is rather old, >> and quite possibly a candidate for removal (I'll have to check later >> today). The dbus package in [haskell-web] seems to be dbus >> (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/dbus), which is newer and looks to >> be better maintained (AFAICS it's also a dependency of github-annex). >> >> Not a particularly good answer, but maybe Fabio can fill in a little >> more details > > Reading from hackage, I can tell you that DBUS is binding to the API, > dbus is implemented in Haskell. The first fails with ghc-7.0, so I don't > know why anybody would use it. As Magnus already told you, the reason > for dbus presence in [haskell-web] is because it is a dependency of > git-annex.
DBus does build just fine with minor patches, which are present in HABS :) But I also don't understand why anyone would use it. I'll look into removing it ASAP. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: mag...@therning.org jabber: mag...@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus _______________________________________________ arch-haskell mailing list arch-haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-haskell
