Re: [arch-haskell] Upgrading to monad-control-0.3

On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 08:11:31PM +0100, Nicolas Pouillard wrote:

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Magnus Therning wrote:

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On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 11:21:22AM +0100, Nicolas Pouillard wrote:

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Hello,

To package the latest and greatest version of git-annex I need to have monad-control-0.3.

However this depend on the update of yesod and would break mongoDB as well.

I'm quite short on times these days and would like to know if this is gonna happen soon or not?

In the meantime I email the author of the mongoDB haskell package.

It's *very* unlikely to happen.  As you probably noticed yourself any update to yesod would necessitate an update of attoparsec to at least 0.10, which in turn requires an update to text and text lives in [extra].

I didn't remember that this was so constrained. Did someone asked the maintainer? If there are good reasons to keep one of these packages at an old version then we should consider having multiple versions of such packages. I heartly persuaded that while we should keep that at a minimum we should have some packages at multiple versions.

This sort of situation is what is keeping a lot of [haskell] behind what's on hackage; the packages in [extra]/[community] (especially haskell-platform of course) tend to put some rather strict limits on what can be upgraded. I'm not convinced keeping multiple versions of packages is a good option though. I personally think that the better option would be to make sure we remove the obstacles currently in place that prevent us from tracking the edge of hackage. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. -- Alan Kay