Re: [arch-haskell] Re: What to do now?

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 08:42, Nicolas Pouillard wrote:

On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 21:28:05 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:

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On 08/10/10 22:14, Magnus Therning wrote:

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Now that Don has decided to focus his Herculean powers in other directions I wonder what people feel should be the plan for the future.

Do we try to fix up Don's tools and scripts so that they are more conducive to team work?

Do we give up on having all of Hackage in AUR and instead rely on tools like bauerbill?

Do we try to do something like what Xyne suggested--set up a Haskell ABS and publish pre-compiled packages in [arch-haskell]?

Here's what I'd suggest based on the last few days' discussion:

• Create an ABS-like tree for all hackage packages. • Populate it with the current versions of packages as found on AUR. • Keep the tree on github.

This will allow us to, in the short term:

• Distribute the work of keeping up with Hackage. • Still upload packages to AUR.

In the longer term I'd like to evolve the tools to work with this setup.  At some point I'd love to see this:

• Some advanced packages builders are able to work straight against the ABS-tree on github, e.g. bauerbill. • cabal2arch modified to work against a local version of the ABS-tree. • A tool capable of determining the reverse dependencies of packages kept in the ABS-tree (so that all packages depending on the updated one can be rebuilt). • An (official) repository for binary Haskell packages, maintained by a team of people.

What do you think?

That's a great plan, I hope that we are not far from a binary repo, I would be a big step forward. In some way, once cabal2arch has done its job and that we have this ABS tree, tools should be the same than for others repository?

Thanks. I'll push ahead with it, despite the relative lack of responses so far... it's only been half a day or so though so maybe there'll be more comments later on. In any case, nothing I'm doing is irreversible :-) Yes, I think once we have an ABS tree the same old established tools can be used in that tree as in other ABS trees. I still see a use for cabal2arch though when it comes to keeping up with hackage, but it has to be changed and improved a little bit to make it fit better. /M -- Magnus Therning                        (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org          Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus         identi.ca|twitter: magthe