Re: [arch-haskell] Re: [extra] haskell-parallel

On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:23:02 +0000, Magnus Therning wrote:

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 14:19, Peter Simons wrote:

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Hi Rémy,

 > Can you quickly tell me if everybody agrees on me uploading these  > packages:  >  > - haskell-parallel (version 3.1.0.1)  > - haskell-hp-parallel (version 2.2.0.1, provides haskell-parallel=2.2.0.1)

I'd rather have haskell-parallel-2.2.0.1 in [extra].

The distinction between haskell-X and haskell-hp-X sounds good in theory, but I don't believe that the consequences of that change are sufficiently understood, nor am I convinced that we posses a tool-chain that's capable of taking advantage of that distinction. At this point in time, that change looks like a lot of risks and very little payoff.

I made an attempt at providing exactly this, at http://linode3.kiwilight.com/~magnus.therning/archhaskell/x86_64/

Please have a look at it and let me know what you find. I'm fairly sure those packages need some further tweaking, but my gut feeling tells me it *is* possible to do this and end up with a system that is convenient to use.

Good work, I'm all for the haskell-hp-* versions, this is a nice tradeoff between having many versions of each package and only one per package. This is really a sitution where we have to concile the strict update policy of the Platform and the "latest released" ArchLinux policy. -- Nicolas Pouillard http://nicolaspouillard.fr