Hi all, For anybody wondering about the status of gitit: it was removed from [haskell-happstack] on April 7th because of dependency issues (feed
=0.3.6 && <0.4, pandoc >=1.12.4 && <1.14); feed itself was removed because depending on utf8-string < 1.0 which was updated in [haskell-core] to 1-78 [1].
Pandoc is being watched carefully [2][3], but feed doesn't seem really likely to be updated: its Hackage entry [4] points to a GitHub repo that hasn't been updated in 18 months [5], and an issue asking support for utf8-string 1.x is opened there since January 23 [6]. The related discussion makes it clear that feed is leaning towards abandonware. There is an issue open to have haskell-trustees intervene [7], and a proposition to add it to Stackage [8]. So those are the one to watch concerning gitit's fate. A question related to the experience with Haskell on Arch: why do pandoc and gitit *binaries* depends on so many haskell packages being installed? It seems that Ubuntu [9] and Debian [10] do without installing the whole Haskell platform and build dependencies (confirmed in a Xubuntu 14.04 VM: only a few libraries are needed). GHC et al. take up so much space (> 1GB) on my server I asked confirmation this was normal on #haskell IRC! What is the difference in Arch Haskell packaging that causes the need to install all the build depends to solely get the binaries? Thanks Bastien [1] https://github.com/tensor5/haskell-happstack/commit/12356dafcca432ba33fbaa6a... [2] https://github.com/archhaskell/habs/issues/179 [3] https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/arch-haskell/2015-April/004819.html [4] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/feed [5] https://github.com/sof/ [6] https://github.com/sof/feed/issues/9 [7] https://github.com/haskell-infra/hackage-trustees/issues/12 [8] https://github.com/sof/feed/issues/9#issuecomment-89334563 [9] http://packages.ubuntu.com/vivid/gitit [10] https://packages.debian.org/jessie/gitit