On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 10:29:08AM +0200, Dawid Loubser wrote:
Thanks for tha, Bárður!
It's a bit of a pity that I would have to duplicate many libraries aready installed via arch-haskell / pacman with cabal natively (and I agree, needs to be fully-isolated - I'll look into hsenv, thanks!).
I'm curious - I thought the goal of arch-haskell was to ultimately contain all hackage packages. Snap is in hackage - what makes it difficult to get into arch-haskell?
The issue is one of resources. Every package that's added adds to the work of keeping [haskell-core] up-to-date. Especially packages that have *lots* of dependencies can be a bit problematic; they tend to hold back the updating of their dependencies, especially if the upstream developers aren't as interested as we are in tracking the latest and greatest on Hackage.
I am not trying to complain - just trying to establish the situation. I am very new to the haskell world, but passionate about it beyond belief. I am happy to help where I can.
As was mentioned in another branch on this thread, please do contribute by packaging stuff and if you have any problems or suggestions for improvements please post on this list. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. -- Thomas Jefferson