February 2012 - arch-haskell

ghc 7.4.1 in a temporary repo
by Magnus Therning 03 Mar '12

03 Mar '12

Another entry in the debate on ghc 7.4.1 :) I've put up a repo containing ghc 7.4.1, darcs-beta (stable darcs doesn't build out of the box) and xmonad. [ghc74] Server = http://www.kiwilight.com/~magnus/$repo Only built for x86_64 (since it's the future ;). Let me know if anyone's interested in building it for i686, then I'll share the source for it all. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay

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[haskell] is back online
by Magnus Therning 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

I've received several offers of hosting [haskell]. It's wonderful to get such a great response from the members of the community. So far one of the offers has come to fruition, but I'd like to have a second site, just in case. I'll keep you updated on the progress. As I mentioned there is a new server and now you can use the following entry for [haskell]: ~~~ [haskell] Server = http://xsounds.org/~haskell/$arch ~~~ /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus

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Availability of [haskell]
by Magnus Therning 28 Feb '12

28 Feb '12

Lately the server, www.kiwilight.com, that hosts [haskell] (and some other repos) has had rather bad availability. It's known by the adminstrator (Kaiting Chen). Hopefully it'll be addressed shortly, in the meantime the only thing to do is to wait and try later :( /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay

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GHC 7.4.1 or HP 2011.4.0.0??
by Magnus Therning 23 Feb '12

23 Feb '12

It's been out for a day now... this would be a good time to decide whether ArchLinux should be bold and move to a haskell-platform-free state, or trudge on with HP and the ache it causes. If we're moving to 7.4.1 there's a lot of work with getting ArchHaskell in shape for it, so the longer notice the better :) If we're to trudge on with HP then we really ought to move to 2011.4.0.0, which also means a new version of GHC and a lot of work on ArchHaskell, so the longer notice the better :) Please, please, please, can we move on this soon? I'm available to help out with [extra]&[community] packages if need be, updating PKGBUILDs, building, verifying other's changes, etc. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus

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Re: [arch-haskell] [arch-general] GHC 7.4.1 or HP 2011.4.0.0??
by Magnus Therning 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 19:07, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Magnus Therning <magnus(a)therning.org> wrote: >> We ought to be ashamed, Debian unstable now has GHC 7.4.1! ;) >> http://packages.debian.org/sid/ghc >> >> In the meantime I've put together a repo with GHC 7.4.1 (x86_64 only) >> and a few packages: http://is.gd/L7ZBQC > > I will be working with vega in around 2 weeks to update ghc and > cleaning up the haskell pkgs. > I'm not working on it right now because I'm currently focusing on > cleaning up our ruby package and guidelines. > Vega is working on a tool to help us with the update. > > If you really need ghc 7.4.1, I have a preliminary package for ghc at > http://pkgbuild.com/~td123/ghc.tar > Binaries are available under http://pkgbuild.com/~td123/ > Note this is completely unsupported and should be only used if you > know what you're doing. Not specifically saying this to you, but other > people that come across reading this :) I've made some changes to that package (in particular adding a patch that makes installation of packages *a lot* less verbose). Please consider grabbing it out of my git repo. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus

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Re: [arch-haskell] [arch-general] GHC 7.4.1 or HP 2011.4.0.0??
by Magnus Therning 16 Feb '12

16 Feb '12

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 09:03:02PM -0600, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Magnus Therning <magnus(a)therning.org> wrote: [...] >> Am I to understand that this means HP will go? > > That's the plan so far. :-) >> In the meantime I'll try to build as many of the packages in >> [extra]/[community] as possible. That ought to be useful to you >> later on, particularly if any patches are necessary. > > This would be really awesome if you found the time to do this > especially if you found any breakages and patches that fixed those. Of course. I'll collect it all in the git repo I pointed to earlier. By now I've gotten almost all packages from [extra] compiled. So far I've skipped OpenGL/GLUT since these packages have been drastically re-arranged in the recent releases. I'm wondering whether it's worth including them at all if HP is dropped. (Are there usage statistics to consult somewhere?) /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay

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Move to 7.4.1
by Magnus Therning 06 Feb '12

06 Feb '12

I've put together a package for 7.4.1, and then tried adding a few of the binary packages, and their dependencies. Here are the notes I took during it: darcs can't be added due to a ceiling on the dependency on unix, and that version of unix can't be added with base==4.5 several dependency ceilings that prevent adding the latest version of libraries xmonad-extras can be added (after darcs) without any problems What other Haskell binaries do we have in [extra] & [community]? ~~~ $ cblrepo-7.4.1 add -n darcs,2.5.2 array,0.3.0.3 filepath,1.2.0.1 hashed-storage,0.5.9 dataenc,0.14.0.3 mmap,0.5.7 mtl,2.0.1.0 zlib,0.5.3.2 transformers,0.2.2.0 text,0.11.1.13 tar,0.3.2.0 process,1.0.1.5 random,1.0.1.1 regex-compat,0.93.1 regex-base,0.93.2 regex-posix,0.95.1 parsec,3.1.2 old-time,1.0.0.7 html,1.0.1.2 haskeline,0.6.4.6 utf8-string,0.3.7 xmonad-contrib,0.10 xmonad,0.10 X11,1.5.0.1 syb,0.3.6 Failed to satisfy the following dependencies for darcs: unix >=1.0 && <2.5 && >=1.0 && <2.5 ~~~ /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay

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Orphaned aur packages
by Bharat Ghanta 06 Feb '12

06 Feb '12

Why are there so many orphaned hasekll packages in aur?

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Re: [arch-haskell] GHC 7.4.1 or HP 2011.4.0.0??
by Matthew Cox 04 Feb '12

04 Feb '12

On Feb 4, 2012 8:11 AM, "Peter Hercek" <phercek(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > my opinion: > ghc 7.4.1; forget about hp; if something does not build > with ghc 7.4.1 then drop it from repository till some > of the package users fix it and provide a patch > if [extra] and [community] do not move just put ghc > in [haskell]; I'm actually like the idea that there should > not be anything haskell related in [extra]/[community] This way we could provide [haskell-head] and [haskell-platform]. Matt.

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