Re: [arch-general] Haskell Support Was: [arch-haskell] Xmonad version?

2011-12-20 Thread Magnus Therning
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:00:12AM +0100, Cédric Girard wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Magnus Therning wrote: > > > >> Second, my own experience lead me to disable [haskell] repository > > >> on my computers because some packages were out of date but where > > >> picked before AUR ones

Re: [arch-general] Haskell Support Was: [arch-haskell] Xmonad version?

2011-12-20 Thread Cédric Girard
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Magnus Therning wrote: > >> Second, my own experience lead me to disable [haskell] repository > >> on my computers because some packages were out of date but where > >> picked before AUR ones by the aur helper I use. > > > > Hence the confusion around this issue.

Re: [arch-general] Haskell Support Was: [arch-haskell] Xmonad version?

2011-12-20 Thread Magnus Therning
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:11:40PM -0800, Ethan Schoonover wrote: > 2011/12/20 Cédric Girard > >> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 4:11 AM, Ethan Schoonover >> wrote: >> >>> 2. Always avoid AUR Haskell packages (they are mostly out of date) >> >> I'm not sure about this. First I find this unrespectful to

Re: [arch-general] Haskell Support Was: [arch-haskell] Xmonad version?

2011-12-20 Thread Ethan Schoonover
2011/12/20 Cédric Girard > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 4:11 AM, Ethan Schoonover >wrote: > > > 2. Always avoid AUR Haskell packages (they are mostly out of date) > > I'm not sure about this. First I find this unrespectful to the people > spending time maintaining Haskell PKGBUILDs in the AUR (and I'

Re: [arch-general] Haskell Support Was: [arch-haskell] Xmonad version?

2011-12-20 Thread Cédric Girard
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 4:11 AM, Ethan Schoonover wrote: > 2. Always avoid AUR Haskell packages (they are mostly out of date) I'm not sure about this. First I find this unrespectful to the people spending time maintaining Haskell PKGBUILDs in the AUR (and I'm not saying this before I do). Secon

Re: [arch-general] Haskell Support Was: [arch-haskell] Xmonad version?

2011-12-19 Thread Ethan Schoonover
So is the current best practice for Haskell on Arch something like this: 0. Always prefer to source Haskell packages from official Arch repos now that they are updated 1. Always add the [haskell] repo to pacman.conf 2. Always avoid AUR Haskell packages (they are mostly out of date) 3. Always avoid

Re: [arch-general] Haskell Support Was: [arch-haskell] Xmonad version?

2011-12-19 Thread Magnus Therning
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:31:09AM +0100, Jelle van der Waa wrote: [...] > Btw adopted xmonad,xmonad-contrib, these packages will be updated > today. When building xmonad-extras against these updated packages I noticed that you didn't include a version compiled with profiling enabled (maybe not su

Re: [arch-general] Haskell Support Was: [arch-haskell] Xmonad version?

2011-12-18 Thread Bernardo Barros
Just try to support Haskell Platform in extra/community. That's enough.

Re: [arch-general] Haskell Support Was: [arch-haskell] Xmonad version?

2011-12-18 Thread Norbert Zeh
Magnus Therning [2011.12.18 1148 +0100]: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:31:09AM +0100, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > [...] > > > > Btw adopted xmonad,xmonad-contrib, these packages will be updated today. > > Excellent, then I can stop building these for myself. Are you > considering adding xmonad-ext

Re: [arch-general] Haskell Support Was: [arch-haskell] Xmonad version?

2011-12-18 Thread Magnus Therning
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:53:29AM +0100, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > On 18/12/11 11:48, Magnus Therning wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:31:09AM +0100, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > > [...] > >> > >> Btw adopted xmonad,xmonad-contrib, these packages will be updated today. > > > > Excellent, then

Re: [arch-general] Haskell Support Was: [arch-haskell] Xmonad version?

2011-12-18 Thread Magnus Therning
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 09:53:40AM +0100, Jelle van der Waa wrote: [...] > What are the real troubling haskell packages? Only GHC, > haskell-platform and XMonad? I'm not sure any of them are troubling. This is my view on it: - GHC is a big package, but Vesa is doing a good job keeping it up-to

Re: [arch-general] Haskell Support Was: [arch-haskell] Xmonad version?

2011-12-18 Thread Jelle van der Waa
On 18/12/11 11:48, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:31:09AM +0100, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > [...] >> >> Btw adopted xmonad,xmonad-contrib, these packages will be updated today. > > Excellent, then I can stop building these for myself. Are you > considering adding xmonad-extra

Re: [arch-general] Haskell Support Was: [arch-haskell] Xmonad version?

2011-12-18 Thread Magnus Therning
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:31:09AM +0100, Jelle van der Waa wrote: [...] > > Btw adopted xmonad,xmonad-contrib, these packages will be updated today. Excellent, then I can stop building these for myself. Are you considering adding xmonad-extras too, or should I go ahead and add that to [haskell]

Re: [arch-general] Haskell Support Was: [arch-haskell] Xmonad version?

2011-12-18 Thread Jelle van der Waa
On 18/12/11 09:53, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > On 17/12/11 23:07, Ethan Schoonover wrote: >> There was a recent Arch-Haskell thread about dumping most of AUR >> Haskell packages: >> http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/arch-haskell/2011-November/001744.html >> >> As an end user, I effectively ignore the

Re: [arch-general] Haskell Support Was: [arch-haskell] Xmonad version?

2011-12-18 Thread Jelle van der Waa
On 17/12/11 23:07, Ethan Schoonover wrote: > There was a recent Arch-Haskell thread about dumping most of AUR > Haskell packages: > http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/arch-haskell/2011-November/001744.html > > As an end user, I effectively ignore the official Arch Haskell > packages as they are so f

Re: [arch-general] Haskell Support Was: [arch-haskell] Xmonad version?

2011-12-17 Thread Ethan Schoonover
There was a recent Arch-Haskell thread about dumping most of AUR Haskell packages: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/arch-haskell/2011-November/001744.html As an end user, I effectively ignore the official Arch Haskell packages as they are so far out of date. I'm also now trying to disregard most o

Re: [arch-general] Haskell Support Was: [arch-haskell] Xmonad version?

2011-12-17 Thread Ionut Biru
On 12/17/2011 11:41 PM, Bernardo Barros wrote: > Haskell platform was released with the latest stable GHC (7.0.4 of course). > > Guys, what's happening with haskell support in Arch? > > Xmonad, and now GHC and lots of packages in the supported repos are > not keeping update with upstream. i vote

[arch-general] Haskell Support Was: [arch-haskell] Xmonad version?

2011-12-17 Thread Bernardo Barros
Haskell platform was released with the latest stable GHC (7.0.4 of course). Guys, what's happening with haskell support in Arch? Xmonad, and now GHC and lots of packages in the supported repos are not keeping update with upstream.