Re: The haskell platform in ubuntu?

2009-07-18 Thread Iain Lane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:59:45 +0200 Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > Il giorno sab, 18/07/2009 alle 00.32 +0200, Jan Claeys ha scritto: > > > > Debian unstable & experimental are updated all the time, so as long > > as the Debian maintainer keeps th

Re: The haskell platform in ubuntu?

2009-07-18 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno sab, 18/07/2009 alle 00.32 +0200, Jan Claeys ha scritto: > > Debian unstable & experimental are updated all the time, so as long as > the Debian maintainer keeps the package up-to-date, there will be a > new > version every 6 months in Ubuntu too? > Hmm yes this is likely obvious but:

Re: The haskell platform in ubuntu?

2009-07-17 Thread Iain Lane
[accidently neglected to send to list, sorry] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Thanks for your concern. On 17 Jul 2009, at 09:17, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > http://orangesquash.org.uk/2009/07/04/debian-haskell-packaging-team-getting-underway/ That was me. > Shall I just bothe

Re: The haskell platform in ubuntu?

2009-07-17 Thread Jan Claeys
Op vrijdag 17-07-2009 om 10:17 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Vincenzo Ciancia: > The platform is released every six months, so it makes a very good > candidate for synchronised releases in ubuntu. This is why perhaps > ubuntu might have lots more success by adding the platform by itself > rather th

The haskell platform in ubuntu?

2009-07-17 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Dear all, there exists an haskell platform¹, which is supposed to be a single set of libraries and tools across many operating systems. Notably, the platform includes the cabal tool. More often than not, people give up on using the ubuntu haskell packages because they want to use cabal. Can we