Hi Gour,
Let's first see who wants to be part of the 'team' or everything was just one-man-band.
I would like to contribute some time and effort. There are a number of Haskell packages on AUR that I need in my daily work, and I'd sure be able to help keeping them (and their dependencies) up-to-date. I wonder is what is going to happen to the arch-haskell user on AUR? Don, would you be willing to share the password so that other people you can actually update packages on AUR? Also, it would be great if the e-mail address of the arch-haskell user could point to this mailing list so that everyone who is subscribed here receives out-of-date notifications and comments that are left on AUR. Having that information publicly available for everyone would greatly improve our ability to function as a team.
Magnus> Do we give up on having all of Hackage in AUR and instead rely Magnus> on tools like bauerbill?
This is interesting idea...
Bauerbill's Hackage support works great. However, in my understanding Bauerbill will generally install the latest version of every package. This is a problem for us, because sometimes we need to withhold updates for a while until all users of the package have updated their packages to cope with the latest version. This is easy to do on AUR, where we can choose which packages to update in which order, but I don't see how that could be accomplished with Bauerbill, unless Xyne is willing to add some major features to the program.
Magnus> Do we try to do something like what Xyne suggested--set up a Magnus> Haskell ABS and publish pre-compiled packages in [arch-haskell]?
...however, in the spirit of Arch (in comparison with the Gentoo which I left 3yrs ago), I consider that having kind of 'Haskell overlay' with binary packages would be very nice...
Yes, I agree that this is probably the best solution. Arch was designed to work that way. How difficult is it to set up a repository? Does anyone know how to do that? Take care, Peter