Re: [arch-haskell] [arch-general] Haskell Support Was: Xmonad version?

2011/12/28 Magnus Therning

On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 02:36:50PM -0800, Bernardo Barros wrote:

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On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Magnus Therning wrote:

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Witch version should I use? For now we have 1 vote for 7.2.2 (Magnus) and 1 for 7.0.4 (Bernardo).

I suspect the most worthwhile thing to do is an attempt to use 7.4rc1.

It's a good idea too! I would suggest to have two repositories then.

[haskell-stable] and [haskell-preview]

[haskell] and [haskell-testing] would make more sense :-)

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Right now people are sending patches to package maintainers to get them working with 7.4.

We can help with that process with the [haskell-preview] repository.

I should point out that there is quite a bit of work involved if someone wants to forge ahead with this before the Arch maintainers get GHC 7.4 and packages built with it into [testing]/[community-testing].

As I mentioned before, I think there will be a lot of work including: building a 7.4 snapshot (not very stable...), patching *many* packages. I've already used 7.2.2 (from [testing]) for producing a [haskell-testing], so, if you don't mind, I could take charge and starting from here. At least we could have in few days an up-to-date repository. Then we should find a method to pass packages from [haskell-testing] to [haskell] and starting to use ghc 7.4 as soon as it will be available in [testing]. Fabio