Re: [arch-haskell] Upgrading to monad-control-0.3

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Peter Hercek wrote:

On 01/03/2012 10:18 AM, Magnus Therning wrote:

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On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:12, Nicolas Pouillard  wrote:

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Indeed but I support the concept of the haskell-platform. It is too

restrictive to only packages able to track the latest versions of their dependencies.

I suggest we try this technique on one case first and the text package seems to be a good example. We could package the latest version of text and upgrade some package which depend on it.

I'm sorry, but what "technique" are you referring to here?

Supporting multiple versions of a package by giving them different archlinux names.

There was a proposal (in the far past) to add "-hp" to the name of all packages which belong to haskell platform (HP). The different name would allow to have a HP package version and one more package version which was supposed to be the very latest stable version. HP packages could depend only on other HP packages. Non-HP packages could depend on HP packages and also on non-HP packages. Not sure whether there is some fundamental problem why this cannot work or it was only forgotten. Looks to me like it could work.

Indeed this is a solution. However it requires having control on all hp packages which we don't have. However either options are OK for me. -- Nicolas Pouillard http://nicolaspouillard.fr