Re: [arch-haskell] [arch-general] (for Vesa and other Arch Devs on the list) Re: GHC 7.4.1 or HP 2011.4.0.0??

On 02/06/2012 09:45 AM, Magnus Therning wrote:

On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 21:18, Vesa Kaihlavirta wrote:

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On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Magnus Therning wrote:

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This was mainly directed to the Arch Devs on the list, and especially Vesa since he's putting in most of the work on GHC as found in [extra].

We've already discussed the question of whether we should keep HP in Arch. *I* think there was clear what the favoured route ahead was, but in the end it's the Arch Devs who decide. I don't like the current situation (outdated GHC and outdated HP), so a decision would be much welcome then the work on catching up can begin. Yeah, I noticed 7.4.1's release just now.

The question of HP and Arch was left in a limbo the last time, I feel. The reason I started pondering about dropping HP earlier was that there seemed to be no progress on it with regards to 7.2. Then it was pointed out that 7.2 was sort of an unstable upstream release, so that was the reason for HP not going with it.

So now I'm not so certain anymore about dropping it. We could again wait for a while until HP catches up (it should be relatively fast this time, since 7.4 is supposedly a real stable release) or just drop it and go to 7.4.1 asap (and probably face some breakage). What do you people think? Drop HP. The main reason is that the goals of HP are opposite the goals of ArchLinux.

Yes, so far, users of this list clearly prefer to drop HP and move to 7.4. (6 responses). One would prefer to stay with 7.0. At least 2 people of this list are OK if the upgrade to 7.4 means dropping packages provided that at least ghc itself and cabal-install are available. Peter.