Re: [arch-general] [aur-general] GHC 7.8.1 packaging decisions for Arch Linux

2014-04-21 Thread Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
On 2014-04-08 22:27, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: Hello all, With the arrival of ghc 7.8.1 [0], I would like to address the following problems with a restructuring of how we treat haskell packages in archlinux: Problem 1: Updating any haskell package has been delayed until we bump ghc.

Re: [arch-general] [aur-general] GHC 7.8.1 packaging decisions for Arch Linux

2014-04-10 Thread Bardur Arantsson
On 2014-04-09 09:07, Magnus Therning wrote: Change 2: Make a news item stating that cabal-install is now the recommended way to install haskell packages. This wouldn't pollute the filesystem since cabal-install installs packages to the ~/.cabal directory by default. We might need to include a

Re: [arch-general] [aur-general] GHC 7.8.1 packaging decisions for Arch Linux

2014-04-10 Thread Bardur Arantsson
On 2014-04-10 06:39, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: Now that aside is finished, what is the deal with that arch-haskell group? Is it still going? Would they want to provide packages officially instead? I wouldn't actually

Re: [arch-general] [aur-general] GHC 7.8.1 packaging decisions for Arch Linux

2014-04-10 Thread Magnus Therning
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 01:34:00PM +0200, Bardur Arantsson wrote: On 2014-04-09 09:07, Magnus Therning wrote: Change 2: Make a news item stating that cabal-install is now the recommended way to install haskell packages. This wouldn't pollute the filesystem since cabal-install installs packages

Re: [arch-general] [aur-general] GHC 7.8.1 packaging decisions for Arch Linux

2014-04-09 Thread Magnus Therning
Tom, I might come across as very critical below, but I'm really not. As you probably realise I've also thought a bit about related questions and I'm just really interested in your thoughts and answers. On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Thomas Dziedzic gos...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, With

Re: [arch-general] [aur-general] GHC 7.8.1 packaging decisions for Arch Linux

2014-04-09 Thread Jelle van der Waa
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Magnus Therning mag...@therning.org wrote: Tom, I might come across as very critical below, but I'm really not. As you probably realise I've also thought a bit about related questions and I'm just really interested in your thoughts and answers. On Wed, Apr

Re: [arch-general] [aur-general] GHC 7.8.1 packaging decisions for Arch Linux

2014-04-09 Thread Thomas Dziedzic
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 12:07 AM, Magnus Therning mag...@therning.orgwrote: I'm guessing this means cabal-install now is the only package outside of [community] that uses ghc to build. Is that right? That would be correct. Is the plan then that any future tools (i.e. non-libraries)