I'd say that binary packages are really valuable for installing a global haskell dev environment for quick hacks and scripts for which it would not be practical to setup a project and download and build a lot of deps. At least ghc and base should be installed globally so one can just fire up the REPL to try things interactively.

I have noticed that community has gotten real good support for Haskell (again), and I have switched to using that because I prefer community controlled packages. For me this has worked out without any problem (I used arch haskell before), so there may not be the need for arch haskell at this point...

I am very greatful for all the work you've made on the arch haskell repo. It served me well for a long time when the official haskell support failed. 

Regards
Johan

On 9 Jan 2017 12:27 a.m., "Magnus Therning" <magnus@therning.org> wrote:

Hi all,

Well, the subject line says it all really. Does ArchHaskell still have
a role in the Arch world?

These are the reasons for asking this at this point:

- the Haskell packages in [community] now number more than 400 and there
  is considerable overlap with ArchHaskell (unfortunately it's not a
  superset, not yet anyway)
- the Haskell packages in [community] also seem to be well maintained
  and to receive timely updates,
- the build-tool and development-tool situation for Haskell has improved
  considerably over the last few years, between `stack` and `cabal`
  coupled with improvements to `ghci` and introduction of `ghc-mod`,
  `intero` and `hsdev` I feel that Haskell development now should be
  carried out without system-wide installation of libs.

In particular the last point means that I personally haven't had `ghc`
installed via a package for the last couple of months.

/M

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