Thank you for your advice. It's good that I kept it to a minimum; I was thinking to hand to you also the *-conduit stuff, but I've better maintain it myself.
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Magnus Therning <mag...@therning.org>wrote: > On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 12:04:55PM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: > > On Jul 27, 2013 6:51 PM, "Nicola Squartini" <tens...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> For those of you interested in Haskell for the web, I created using > >> cblrepo a new repository containing all the latest happstack, > >> clckwrks and gitit packages. If you want to use it, add this to > >> your pacman.conf > >> > >> [haskell-happstack] > >> SigLevel = Never > >> Server = ftp://noaxiom.org/$repo/$arch > >> > >> I believe that some of the dependencies now in haskell-happstack > >> should rather go in haskell-core. Here is a minimal list: > >> > >> base16-bytestring > >> haskell-src-meta > >> syb-with-class > >> time-compat > > > > Would you mind putting this request in a bug on github/habs instead > > please? It reduces the risk that I forget to deal with it ;-) > > I noticed you did what I asked, which is great :) There is just one > thing that I feel I need to point out before I add the packages, and I > think it's better to highlight and keep any possible ensuing > discussion here rather than bury it in a ticket on github. > > By adding these package in [haskell-core] you are relieving yourself > of some of the work with packaging happstack, but you are also handing > over some of the control. If any of the packages added to > [haskell-core] is frequently updated on hackage and the happstack > developers are a bit slow with reacting to new versions of its > dependencies then you are likely to find that at times > [haskell-happstack] isn't usable -- [haskell-core] has moved on, but > [haskell-happstack] can't be rebuilt on top of it yet. > > We've had discussions in the past on how to deal with this, but > nothing's really materialised (probably my fault). We've also not run > into this particular problem terribly often with the only other > auxiliary repo, [haskell-web]. So maybe it's just good that > [haskell-happstack] comes along and forces the issue ;) > > Anyway, this isn't a big deal and I'm sure we can work something out > if it becomes a recurring issue. However, I think you really should > know up front what you are getting yourself into ;) > > /M > > -- > Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 > email: mag...@therning.org jabber: mag...@therning.org > twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus > > > Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then > being a real problem in the longer term. > -- Alan Kay >
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