Re: [arch-haskell] Current procedure to install Hakyll (with deps)

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 12:54 AM, wrote:

On 2012-Jun-12, Mateusz Loskot wrote:

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On 12 June 2012 11:53, Magnus Therning wrote:

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On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Mateusz Loskot wrote: [...]

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So, here comes my question: Considering I'm interested in Hakyll, could anyone recommend where should I grab all the related packages and required dependencies from?

Don't use AUR!

OK, I won't.

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Check to see how many of the dependencies are in [haskell], if all are there: profit!

I will try this option tonight.

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If only a few are missing you can always raise a bug to get them added (I look favourable upon existence of patches + pre-built packages).

I'm usually happy to contribute too, though in case of Haskell I'm green as Irish grass.

I, too find, the Hakyll package interesting.

I am interested in contributing a hakyll packages and its missing dependencies, provided I can get some feedback on my previous attempted contribution (of OpenGL).

A few questions and comments:

1. Installing the latest version of Hakyll, 3.3.0.1, would require upgrading blaze-html and reinstalling (probably breaking, warns cabal install --dry-run) pandoc. It seems best to aim at hakyll 3.2.7.2, which is the latest version that can use blaze-html 0.4.* (we are at 0.4.3.3-5).

The latest version of blaze-html either requires a few other updates, or breaks other packages at the moment. I can't remember which it is, but you can easily see check by attempting to add it using `cblrepo`. Settling for an older version of hakyll is all right for the moment.

2. Hakyll has a "previewServer" flag, which, if True (the default), also depends on snap-core and snap-server. Making a hakyll package with the previewServer would require 21 new packages, including hakyll itself. Without the previewServer, it would require only 5 new packages. So I think I would plan *at first* to provide the package *without* the previewServer.

Good point.

3. Assuming cblrepo does not automatically set the previewServer flag to False, I think the best way to do this would be a patch for the PKGBUILD?

Either a patch to the PKGBUILD or a patch to the .cabal. If you come up with a good way to pass in flags when running `cblrepo add` then please let me know :)

4. One of the dependencies is hamlet, which requires another flag setting, blaze_html_0_5 to be False, in order to use blaze-html < 0.5. Again, a PKGBUILD patch?

Or .cabal patch. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus