On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Duncan Coutts
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 11:25 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
>> Playing the devil's advocate I'd say that cabal (not the library
>> Cabal, but the tool cabal in cabal-install) is only needed on systems
>> with pacakge managers
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 11:25 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
> > It seems to me that it adds confusion (two ways of installing things
> > rather than one) while reducing flexibility and 'freshness' of
> > installation.
>
> To me it adds simplicity. I might be developing an in-house tool at
> work,
2008/10/14 Titto Assini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi Magnus,
>
> you wife must be very advanced if she plans to install xmonad, I read
> the installation docs recently and recoiled in horror :-)
Installing xmonad in Debian Sid is extremely simple, thanks to it
being packaged in the distro.
> To go b
Hi Magnus,
you wife must be very advanced if she plans to install xmonad, I read
the installation docs recently and recoiled in horror :-)
To go back to the subject under discussion, I can perfectly see the
need for having ready made distribution packages for:
- the haskell compilers
- cabal
- a
On Tuesday 14 October 2008 10:33:17 Titto Assini wrote:
> Can anyone explain why, now that we have cabal and therefore package
> installation is just a short "cabal install X" away do we need
> distribution specific binary packages?
One reason I can think of is foreign (read "not Haskell") depend
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Titto Assini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can anyone explain why, now that we have cabal and therefore package
> installation is just a short "cabal install X" away do we need
> distribution specific binary packages?
>
> I personally prefer my hackage packages fres
Can anyone explain why, now that we have cabal and therefore package
installation is just a short "cabal install X" away do we need
distribution specific binary packages?
I personally prefer my hackage packages freshly cooked ...
titto
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 3:52 AM, Ariel J. Birnbaum <[
> Pray tell, what kind of feats are expected of such a champion?
No answer. I guess my failed attempt at chivalrous-sounding wit killed the
message. I'll rephrase:
Does the job consist of:
Maintaining an independent repository of Haskell packages configured and
compiled for the current (probabl
> > Have you thought about doing this for Ubuntu? If you know how to
> > automatically generate packages, you could set up a PPA (private package
> > archive) on Launchpad.
>
> I've spoken with Jeremy Shaw, who has similar systems in place, based
> also on Cabal (and cabal-install), for generating
ashley:
> Don Stewart wrote:
> >* Arch now has 609 Haskell packages in AUR.
>
> Have you thought about doing this for Ubuntu? If you know how to
> automatically generate packages, you could set up a PPA (private package
> archive) on Launchpad.
I've spoken with Jeremy Shaw, who has similar
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