Hello, For what it's worth, I would prefer the first option, i.e. dropping HP. I can't estimate the amount of extra work compared to moving to HP 2011.4.0.0, but I think it'll be more flexible and we won't rely on the imposed structure of HP. I use few of the HP packages; I even uninstalled it to reinstall ghc and the other components manually. I think we'll have the freshest versions of next releases this way, which is closer to the spirit of arch. Adrien On 03/02/2012 16:28, Magnus Therning wrote:
It's been out for a day now... this would be a good time to decide whether ArchLinux should be bold and move to a haskell-platform-free state, or trudge on with HP and the ache it causes.
If we're moving to 7.4.1 there's a lot of work with getting ArchHaskell in shape for it, so the longer notice the better :)
If we're to trudge on with HP then we really ought to move to 2011.4.0.0, which also means a new version of GHC and a lot of work on ArchHaskell, so the longer notice the better :)
Please, please, please, can we move on this soon?
I'm available to help out with [extra]&[community] packages if need be, updating PKGBUILDs, building, verifying other's changes, etc.
/M