Re: [arch-haskell] On datafiles in libraries

2011-01-10 Thread Rémy Oudompheng
On 2011/1/10 Peter Simons wrote: > Hi Rémy, > >  > I added [ArchPackage] because I thought it was a better type for the >  > output of the conversion function (since the output is really a >  > PKGBUILD + Maybe an install script), but I didn't use it yet. I'd >  > prefer keeping it for the moment.

Re: [arch-haskell] On datafiles in libraries

2011-01-10 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Rémy, > I added [ArchPackage] because I thought it was a better type for the > output of the conversion function (since the output is really a > PKGBUILD + Maybe an install script), but I didn't use it yet. I'd > prefer keeping it for the moment. you are right. I agree that this type is a

Re: [arch-haskell] On datafiles in libraries

2011-01-09 Thread Rémy Oudompheng
On 2011/1/9 Peter Simons wrote: > Hi Rémy, > >  > Since I had the patches on my local repository, I pushed them >  > upstream. > > thank you for the fixes. I have another patch that simplifies the > library a bit: IMHO, we can drop the 'ArchPackage' data type, because > it's unused. Or do you thin

Re: [arch-haskell] On datafiles in libraries

2011-01-09 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Rémy, > Since I had the patches on my local repository, I pushed them > upstream. thank you for the fixes. I have another patch that simplifies the library a bit: IMHO, we can drop the 'ArchPackage' data type, because it's unused. Or do you think we'd still need that one? Take care, Peter

Re: [arch-haskell] On datafiles in libraries

2011-01-09 Thread Magnus Therning
On 08/01/11 08:36, Rémy Oudompheng wrote: > On 2011/1/7 Magnus Therning wrote: >> I've just created issue 20[1] for cabal2arch. Basically there's a problem >> with the data files provided in archlinux, but used in cabal2arch. Having >> data files in a library package breaks our basic assumption

Re: [arch-haskell] On datafiles in libraries

2011-01-08 Thread Rémy Oudompheng
On 2011/1/7 Magnus Therning wrote: > I've just created issue 20[1] for cabal2arch.  Basically there's a problem > with the data files provided in archlinux, but used in cabal2arch.  Having > data files in a library package breaks our basic assumption that executables > only need to makedepend on t

Re: [arch-haskell] On datafiles in libraries

2011-01-07 Thread Magnus Therning
On 07/01/11 09:35, Peter Simons wrote: > Hi Magnus, > > > https://github.com/archhaskell/cabal2arch/issues#issue/20 > > thank you for tackling this problem. > >> I think that we should remove the data files completely from the packages >> and only host them at a well-known URL (on kiwilight.com or

Re: [arch-haskell] On datafiles in libraries

2011-01-07 Thread Xyne
Xyne wrote: > The versions of both files could be made to coincide with cabal2arch versions > to keep the cabal2arch PKGBUILD simple, e.g.: > > source=(..., "http://example.com/data/ghc-provides.${pkgver}.txt";,...) Forget that. It would just force us to bump the versions with each release of ca

Re: [arch-haskell] On datafiles in libraries

2011-01-07 Thread Xyne
Peter Simons wrote: > > I think that we should remove the data files completely from the > > packages and only host them at a well-known URL (on kiwilight.com or > > haskell.org). > > The notion that those files reside on a remote server concerns me a > little, because it means that reproducib

Re: [arch-haskell] On datafiles in libraries

2011-01-07 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Magnus, > https://github.com/archhaskell/cabal2arch/issues#issue/20 thank you for tackling this problem. > I think that we should remove the data files completely from the > packages and only host them at a well-known URL (on kiwilight.com or > haskell.org). The notion that those files

[arch-haskell] On datafiles in libraries

2011-01-06 Thread Magnus Therning
I've just created issue 20[1] for cabal2arch. Basically there's a problem with the data files provided in archlinux, but used in cabal2arch. Having data files in a library package breaks our basic assumption that executables only need to makedepend on the libraries it uses. In this case I still