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
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
On 2013-10-08 11:54, Dawid Loubser wrote:
Hi all,
I noticed that neither the snap, nor the yesod web frameworks are in
Op Di, 2013-10-08 om 19:43 +0200 skryf Bardur Arantsson: 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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