On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:51:27AM -0800, Bernardo Barros wrote:

Yes, but they do a lot of testing with those packages in HP project. We don't have man power to do this, we better go with HP I think.

And here we disagree :-) My impression is that there is no *testing* in HP at all, instead they choose the latest stable version of GHC and a set of packages at versions that fit together, sometimes they are the most recent most often they aren't. Some choices are even outright questionable, like OpenGL. IMNSHO haskell platform only makes sense for systems that lack a proper packaging system, where it makes available a convenient installer. As I understand "the Arch way" it means using the *latest* stable release. A good example of this is the move to python3. I think Haskell shouldn't be treated in any other way. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. -- Alan Kay