Re: [arch-haskell] On datafiles in libraries

On 08/01/11 08:36, Rémy Oudompheng wrote:

On 2011/1/7 Magnus Therning wrote:

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I've just created issue 20[1] for cabal2arch. Basically there's a problem with the data files provided in archlinux, but used in cabal2arch. Having data files in a library package breaks our basic assumption that executables only need to makedepend on the libraries it uses.

In this case I still think that we should remove the data files completely from the packages and only host them at a well-known URL (on kiwilight.com or haskell.org). cabal2arch should then default to use that URL, for development and testing it might be interesting to add a command line switch to load it from another location, a URL or file.

For now I assigned the issue to Remy. Feel free to re-assign it if you want to.

Since I had the patches on my local repository, I pushed them upstream. For the moment, it still uses files, because I also think cabal2arch should remain usable without an internet connection, and have reproducibility properties. However, it's only a matter of seconds to make it use http://andromeda.kiwilight.com/~remy.oudompheng/arch-haskell/default/ instead.

Fair enough, there is overwhelming opposition to my idea of using data files from URLs by default so I'll stop suggesting it :-) Rémy, does this change fix issue 20[1] completely then? If so I'll close it, unless you beat me to it ;-) /M [1] https://github.com/archhaskell/cabal2arch/issues#issue/20 -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus