Don Stewart wrote:
Hey all,
A week ago I announced a group had formed to improve Haskell
support in the Arch package system.
One week ago, the Haskell on Arch story was rather sketchy, GHC had just
been orphaned as a package from 'extra', and only half a dozen apps and
libs were available in binary form. 20 or so extra Haskell packages were
available in AUR.
A week later, a lot has happened.
<snip>
I have seen the plethora of haskell packages go into the AUR. This is
some really good work.
The next steps are to un-orphan GHC, and the other Haskell things Simo
can't work on now, and to then ensure an appropriate core toolset is
available in extra. Given we don't have a Haskell-expert dev now, advice
on how to proceed here would be welcome.
Well, there are a couple of options here. There could still be a dev
who is willing to take this on. There is a recruitment drive at the
moment so one of the new devs may be interested. Otherwise, ghc & happy
etc, could be bumped down to community and a TU could maintain it.
Perhaps even one of the "Haskell Task Force" leaders would like to be a
TU and do this.
Allan
