Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage -> MacPorts?

2008-09-09 Thread Bjorn Bringert
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 10:14 PM, John MacFarlane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It would be great if there were an automated or semi-automated way > of generating a MacPorts Portfile from a HackageDB package, along > the lines of dons' cabal2arch. Has anyone been working on such a thing? > And, are a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage -> MacPorts?

2008-09-04 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2008 Sep 4, at 20:08, David Menendez wrote: What happens when you upgrade GHC? The problem MacPorts has is that the libraries are still listed as installed, even though they are no longer registered or useable. MacPorts has the same problem with Perl (XS code is dependent on the exact ver

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage -> MacPorts?

2008-09-04 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 20:08 -0400, David Menendez wrote: > On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Don Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's right, on Arch we just go for what people actually need, i.e.: > > > >1) 1 compiler, GHC > >2) GHC comes with the core+extra set, so they're implicitl

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage -> MacPorts?

2008-09-04 Thread Don Stewart
dave: > On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Don Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's right, on Arch we just go for what people actually need, i.e.: > > > >1) 1 compiler, GHC > >2) GHC comes with the core+extra set, so they're implicitly available > >3) all other libs are "haskell-(

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage -> MacPorts?

2008-09-04 Thread David Menendez
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Don Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's right, on Arch we just go for what people actually need, i.e.: > >1) 1 compiler, GHC >2) GHC comes with the core+extra set, so they're implicitly available >3) all other libs are "haskell-(map toLower packag

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage -> MacPorts?

2008-09-04 Thread Don Stewart
duncan.coutts: > On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 12:09 -0400, David Menendez wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 5:19 AM, Duncan Coutts > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That's exactly the same situation as with Gentoo. We provide a > > > ghc-updater program that re-installs all the existing libs for the ne

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage -> MacPorts?

2008-09-04 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 12:09 -0400, David Menendez wrote: > On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 5:19 AM, Duncan Coutts > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's exactly the same situation as with Gentoo. We provide a > > ghc-updater program that re-installs all the existing libs for the new > > ghc. Gentoo also on

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage -> MacPorts?

2008-09-04 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 12:09:33PM -0400, David Menendez wrote: > > Does anyone know whether arch linux and debian can handle multiple > Haskell environments? Debian currently only handles one version of GHC (but package dependencies mean that you can't end up with libraries compiled for the wron

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage -> MacPorts?

2008-09-04 Thread David Menendez
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 5:19 AM, Duncan Coutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 17:54 -0400, David Menendez wrote: >> In my experience thus far, MacPorts feels like a poor match for Cabal. >> As far as I can tell, you get at most one active installation of a >> given port, which me

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage -> MacPorts?

2008-09-04 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 17:54 -0400, David Menendez wrote: > On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 4:14 PM, John MacFarlane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It would be great if there were an automated or semi-automated way > > of generating a MacPorts Portfile from a HackageDB package, along > > the lines of dons' c

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage -> MacPorts?

2008-09-03 Thread David Menendez
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 4:14 PM, John MacFarlane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It would be great if there were an automated or semi-automated way > of generating a MacPorts Portfile from a HackageDB package, along > the lines of dons' cabal2arch. Has anyone been working on such a thing? > And, are an

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage -> MacPorts?

2008-09-03 Thread Don Stewart
duncan.coutts: > On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 13:14 -0700, John MacFarlane wrote: > > It would be great if there were an automated or semi-automated way > > of generating a MacPorts Portfile from a HackageDB package, along > > the lines of dons' cabal2arch. Has anyone been working on such a thing? > > And

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage -> MacPorts?

2008-09-03 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 13:14 -0700, John MacFarlane wrote: > It would be great if there were an automated or semi-automated way > of generating a MacPorts Portfile from a HackageDB package, along > the lines of dons' cabal2arch. Has anyone been working on such a thing? > And, are any haskell-cafe re

[Haskell-cafe] Hackage -> MacPorts?

2008-09-03 Thread John MacFarlane
It would be great if there were an automated or semi-automated way of generating a MacPorts Portfile from a HackageDB package, along the lines of dons' cabal2arch. Has anyone been working on such a thing? And, are any haskell-cafe readers MacPorts committers? John