Re: [arch-haskell] Snap web framework - not in ArchHaskell?

9 Oct 2013

      Thank you kindly, Ramana.

I have to put quite a lot of work (learning) into Haskell before I would
be of any real use, I was simply interested in playing around with snap
as one of the avenues of learning. I quite like the philosophy of snap.

I'll certainly be in contact once I can meaningfully contribute (or
meaningfully ask questions!).

D.

Op Wo, 2013-10-09 om 10:33 +0100 skryf Ramana Kumar:
...
I should also mention explicitly that we'd be very happy to help on
this mailing list and/or on the IRC channel.
Ask whatever questions you like, and eventually the results of this
discussion can be put on the wiki to make it easier to package things
up in the future.
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Ramana Kumar 
wrote:
        Getting packages into arch-haskell just requires someone to
        put in the time and maintenance effort.
There's a section at
        https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Haskell_package_guidelines on improving Arch Haskell.
        If you get familiar with cblrepo and start a haskell-snap
        repository, that would be the first step towards getting Snap
        into arch-haskell.
You might want to build on Nicola's haskell-happstack
        repository (in case many of the dependencies are shared), or
        at least use it for inspiration.
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Dawid Loubser
         wrote:
                Thanks for tha, Bárður!
It's a bit of a pity that I would have to duplicate
                many libraries
                aready installed via arch-haskell / pacman with cabal
                natively (and I
                agree, needs to be fully-isolated - I'll look into
                hsenv, thanks!).
I'm curious - I thought the goal of arch-haskell was
                to ultimately
                contain all hackage packages. Snap is in hackage -
                what makes it
                difficult to get into arch-haskell?
I am not trying to complain - just trying to establish
                the situation. I
                am very new to the haskell world, but passionate about
                it beyond belief.
                I am happy to help where I can.
kind regards,
                Dawid Loubser
Op Di, 2013-10-08 om 19:43 +0200 skryf Bardur
                Arantsson:
                > On 2013-10-08 11:54, Dawid Loubser wrote:
                > > Hi all,
                > >
                > > I noticed that neither the snap, nor the yesod web
                frameworks are in the
                > > arch-haskell repo - is there a specific reason for
                this?
                > >
                > > What would you recommend is the best way to
                install and use snap?
                > > (since it has been made clear that cabal is not a
                package manager, yet
                > > snap recommends installing it via cabal... :-S )
                > >
                >
                > Well, it's not *really* a package manager, but it
                seems to be growing in
                > that direction... :)
                >
                > Anyway, any users of Snap are probably going to be
                developers, and I
                > think it's pretty par for the course for developers
                to install libraries
                > they're using from Hackage.
                >
                > I would recommend using "hsenv" for keeping
                per-project Cabal
                > environments. (The new Cabal will have support for
                similar isolation,
                > but I don't think it's really been released yet.)
                >
                > Regards,
                >
                > Bárður
                >
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