Hi all,
I have been gradually working on a new common backend for my different pacman
wrappers and helper tools. It is finally available for testing here[1]. One of
the main features is that it is extensible: developers can add build support
for both Pacman and non-Pacman repos by implementing 3 subclasses in a Python
module.
It should be possible to add support for Hackage with cblrepo and the other
tools currently used to maintain arch-haskell. Most users will presumably
prefer to continue to use the pre-compiled binary GHC package in the repo but
being able to easily built it and other packages would be interesting,
especially if it could support a larger subset of Hackage than what is
available in arch-haskell currently.
Anyway, if Magnus or anyone else wants to play around with it and discuss
ideas, please visit the thread. I hope that there will eventually be
numerous quality extensions for various third-party repos (e.g. Hackage, CPAN,
PyPI, RubyGems, etc.).
Regards,
Xyne
[1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=214706
