On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 08:54:50PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > I'm interested in trying Haskell, particularly parsec, for some parsing > problems. Things seem pretty unsettled (I track testing usually, though > can get unstable), and I wonder if anyone could suggest what the best > approach for me to take would be. > > It seems that neither testing nor unstable has a full suite of packages, > since when I try out upgrades to 6.8 in aptitude a lot of stuff gets > knocked out. > > I'm on i386; since some of the trouble seems to be on other > architectures I'm hoping this will help.
testing has ghc6 6.6.1-2 which includes parsec. In unstable, ghc6 6.8.2-4 and libghc6-parsec-dev 2.1.0.0-2 are both available for i386. > More generally, what's up with the packages? I see a patchwork, but I > don't understand what's driving it. I haven't really been following the bigger picture; I'm still waiting for mips/mipsel/powerpc/s390 to build ghc6. Thanks Ian _______________________________________________ debian-haskell mailing list [email protected] http://urchin.earth.li/mailman/listinfo/debian-haskell
