Re: [arch-haskell] [arch-general] Haskell Support Was: Xmonad version?

2011/12/20 Magnus Therning

Den 20 dec 2011 04:58 skrev "Bernardo Barros" :

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Arch is not a testing distro... And it's not even up to date with Haskell Platform. If you want to "go faster them haskell platform" you will need to work hard with packaging testing and this seems NOT the case with Arch at the moment...

I don't think it's quite that easy. AFAIU we'll soon have a choice to make, either stick to HP with an old version of GHC, or move to the latest stable GHC (7.4) and drop HP proper.

Personally, I'm in favour of the latter.

/M

*From Arch Linux About page:* Arch strives to stay bleeding edge, and typically offers the latest stable versions of most software. [...] Arch Linux uses a "rolling release" system which allows one-time installation and perpetual software upgrades. ... and many other interesting feautres that made me love this distribution. Haskell Platform is not bleeding edge, it seems to follow a "old versions are more stable" approach, more in the way of Debian. This approach has is merits, but I prefer the "Arch way", so I vote for dropping HP. Actually Ghc is not the problem. Most packages in hackage are already builded with ghc-7.2, but 7.2 is testing, so we should use 7.04. The problem are the other packages: for example every update that depends upon * text* failed because in HP (until some days ago) the version was too old. In a couple of months this package will be too old again and will break other packages, unless we update haskell packages twice a year. IMHO, if cabal installs the latest available hackage, we sholud simply do the same. Fabio