On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 05:10:02PM -0700, Evan Silberman wrote: > Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > > On 2020/07/14 13:23, sven falempin wrote: > > > Dear readers, > > > > > > Is anyone working on that for openbsd ? > > > > > > https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/blob/master/textproc/hs-pandoc/Makefile > > > > > > I do not know the Cabal build system nor haskell so I have no idea > > > of the difficulty level of bringing that in ports . > > > > > > IE: is it possible to have it work with just a few tweeks > > > > > > Best, > > > > You maybe able to build it outside of ports by using cabal (see notes at > > https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=152175625404877&w=2) > > > > It would be nice to have a package of this, but it's not a beginner-level > > thing ;) > > Regarding this, Greg Steuck posted a few weeks ago about working on > building Haskell ports using cabal-install, which as I understand it > would be comparable to the way Go and Rust programs are ported. Don't > think there was any public chatter in response to the proposal though.
I missed that. I did explicitly refactor portgen a bit so that it would be more accomodating to things like that. Seems at some point I'll have to look closer at that piece of code if it's proving necessary for so many languages :( seems like we're getting our alien equivalent after all.
