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Silly question (arch-haskell vs cabal)
by Dawid Loubser 23 Sep '13

23 Sep '13

Hi all, As a new user of arch-haskell, I would just like to put the question out there: What is the point of arch-haskell, vs using cabal? Is it simply for the elegance of using a single package manager (pacman) for all packages on my system (Haskell-related and not) or is there some other inherent problem I can expect down the line if I were to use the cabal ecosystem? sorry if this is a redundant question - Dawid Loubser

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Removal of Chart
by Magnus Therning 05 Sep '13

05 Sep '13

I've temporarily removed Chart and its dependencies from the repo. The reason is (taken from the commit message): The new version of Chart (1.0) depends on lens, which in turn has an upper limit on its dependency on split (<0.2.2) which is lower than what is already in the repo (0.2.2). Reason for removal rather than waiting out developers of lens: The current version of lens was released late August 2013 and still depends on split <0.2.2 despite split 0.2.2 being released already in April 2013. This suggests that adding lens at this point risks keeping split back for a long time. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus There's a big difference between making something easy to use and making it productive. -- Adam Bosworth

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New [haskell-happstack] repository
by Nicola Squartini 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

Hi, For those of you interested in Haskell for the web, I created using cblrepo a new repository containing all the latest happstack, clckwrks and gitit packages. If you want to use it, add this to your pacman.conf [haskell-happstack] SigLevel = Never Server = ftp://noaxiom.org/$repo/$arch I believe that some of the dependencies now in haskell-happstack should rather go in haskell-core. Here is a minimal list: base16-bytestring haskell-src-meta syb-with-class time-compat Thanks, Nicola Squartini

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Update of haskell-syb ?
by Pierre Radermecker 21 Aug '13

21 Aug '13

Hello, The update of haskell-core/haskell-syb to 0.4.1-1 [installed: 0.4.0-2] seems to break a lot's of package that still require a version = to 0.4.0-2: error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: haskell-aeson: requires haskell-syb=0.4.0-2 :: haskell-buildwrapper: requires haskell-cpphs=1.16-3 :: haskell-buildwrapper: requires haskell-syb=0.4.0-2 :: haskell-citeproc-hs: requires haskell-syb=0.4.0-2 :: haskell-derive: requires haskell-syb=0.4.0-2 :: haskell-ghc-mod: requires haskell-hlint=1.8.49-2 :: haskell-ghc-mod: requires haskell-syb=0.4.0-2 :: haskell-ghc-syb-utils: requires haskell-syb=0.4.0-2 :: haskell-haskell-src: requires haskell-syb=0.4.0-2 :: haskell-haskell-src-exts: requires haskell-cpphs=1.16-3 :: haskell-hs-bibutils: requires haskell-syb=0.4.0-2 :: haskell-json: requires haskell-syb=0.4.0-2 :: haskell-pandoc: requires haskell-syb=0.4.0-2 :: haskell-pandoc-types: requires haskell-syb=0.4.0-2 :: haskell-texmath: requires haskell-syb=0.4.0-2 :: haskell-uniplate: requires haskell-syb=0.4.0-2 Is this a temp sync problem ? Cheers, - Pierre

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New version of cblrepo with new DB format
by Magnus Therning 15 Aug '13

15 Aug '13

I've just pushed a new version of *cblrepo*, it's now at 0.9.0. There are two major changes: - Use of *aeson* for the database, which means the database format has changed quite a bit. Use `cblrepo convertdb` to convert from the old format. - The library *optparse-applicative* has replaced *cmdargs* for command line parsing. I believe there aren't any major changes to the command line options, but there are 2 minor things: 1. *cmdargs* allows writing partial sub-command names and accepts them as long as the portion written is unambiguous, *optparse-applicative* is more strict and requires the full names to be used. 2. The help format has changed slightly. I don't think either change is very likely to cause issues for users. The HABS database has already been updated to the new format. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. -- Alan Kay

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Package request: JuicyPixels
by Stephen Crane 06 Aug '13

06 Aug '13

This seems to be the best image manipulation library around. Would love if it could get added! :) http://hackage.haskell.org/package/JuicyPixels-3.1 Thanks, Stephen

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cblrepo 0.8.0 released
by Magnus Therning 01 Aug '13

01 Aug '13

I've just pushed out version 0.8.0 of cblrepo. It uses a slightly different database layout so if you maintain packages using cblrepo you need to convert the database using the `convertdb` command. The HABS database has already been converted and pushed to github. Please report any issues at https://github.com/magthe/cblrepo /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term. -- Alan Kay

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Added git-annex
by Magnus Therning 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

Hi all, I've just taken the time to play with git-annex a bit and I ended up adding it to [haskell-core]. I don't know the state of the package in [haskell-web] (arguably I should have checked before) so I'm more than willing to remove the one in [haskell-core] if there's demand for it. The one I added is a rather limited build, I believe the commit message says it all: http://is.gd/gczyxo /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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[haskell-web] & ghc 7.6.3
by Pierre Radermecker 06 Jul '13

06 Jul '13

Hi, If I am not mistaken, [Haskell-web] is no more in sync with [haskell-core]. For isntance, the package "haskell-lens" cannot be installed with ghc 7.6.3. Can I expect a fix in a couple of days or should I go with cabal in the meanwhile ? Cheers, - Pierre

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Async request
by Pierre Radermecker 30 Jun '13

30 Jun '13

Hi, Would it be possible to have async (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/async) in [haskell-core] It has no dependencies apart from base and stm. Thanks, - Pierre

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