Re: [arch-haskell] haskell platform dependencies

magnus:

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Thomas Girod wrote:

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hi there.

I ran into some troubles installing haskell-platform today. Specifically, community contained haskell-zlib-0.5.2.0, which is too recent, and there was no pkgbuild for haskell-zlib-0.5.0.0 in AUR.

So I'm wondering : can the arch-haskell script maintain a version of all dependencies of the haskell-platform in AUR, so we don't have problems installing it ?

Or maybe having a set of pkgbuilds with a name like haskell-zlib-hp to explicitely state that it is the version blessed by the haskell-platform ?

I guess this is something that has to be worked out only when Haskell Platform mandates GHC 6.12. IIRC that won't happen until next year some time. In the meantime I would recommend that no one uses Haskell Platform on Arch!

I hope that in the (not so) long term Haskell Platform moves into a binary repo (like [community] or [extra]). Then AUR can have more bleeding edge versions of the base packages, similar to how some packages have -svn/-git versions, maybe we should adopt -hackage as suffix?

Why not move it short term. Vegai? Fedora, Debian already have binary installs of the platform...