On 2010/11/22 Rémy Oudompheng wrote:

* keep HP2010 versions of the libraries unless they are incompatible with GHC7, and then do the minimal upgrade so that most packages remain compatible.

I put up a small repository at [remy-haskell] Server = http://dev.archlinux.org/~remy/haskell/$arch It should contain HP2010 versions of libraries except for the following upgrades (incompatibilities with GHC7): deepseq 1.1.1.0 -> 1.1.0.1 HTTP 4000.0.9 -> 4000.0.10 mtl 1.1.0.2 -> 1.1.1.0 I have also put network, parsec, tar, xhtml in the same version as in [extra]. -- Rémy.

On 2010/11/26 Rémy Oudompheng wrote:

On 2010/11/24 Rémy Oudompheng wrote:

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deepseq 1.1.1.0 -> 1.1.0.1 HTTP 4000.0.9 -> 4000.0.10 mtl 1.1.0.2 -> 1.1.1.0

As you may have noticed, ghc-7* was moved to [staging] by other devs. I began rebuilding current versions of libraries when they were compatible. I would like your approval to do the following:

deepseq 1.1.1.0 -> 1.1.0.1 (version 1.1.1.0 is incompatible with GHC7 because it specifies a wrong version range, but the source code is identical, so this upgrade is absolutely harmless) mtl 1.1.0.2 -> 1.1.1.0 (version 1.1.0.2 is incompatible with GHC7, but it looks like 1.1.1.0 is API-compatible. It seems HP2011 will choose mtl 2.* however)

Those packages would also end up in the [staging] repo.

Most libraries are now in [staging]. I've built darcs as an example: it needs several patches to work, I've tken them from http://darcs.vm.spiny.org.uk/~ganesh/darcs-2.5-ghc7-2/ Rémy.

Hi Rémy,

As you may have noticed, ghc-7* was moved to [staging] by other devs. I began rebuilding current versions of libraries when they were compatible. I would like your approval to do the following:

deepseq 1.1.1.0 -> 1.1.0.1 mtl 1.1.0.2 -> 1.1.1.0

personally, I am all for it. I'd very much like to have GHC7, and those updates seem comparatively minor, so I'd say go for it! At the same time, I am a little concerned about the state of [extra]. There are problems that have been known for several weeks, yet they don't seem to get fixed. That makes me wonder about our priorities. The most annoying bug so far is that haskell-tar hasn't been built with --enable-shared. This means that no package that depends on haskell-tar -- such as haskell-archlinux -- can be built with --enable-shared. This is probably not a big issue for random ArchLinux users, but it sure does make my life inconvenient, because I'm trying to work with the latest version of our tool-chain, which sets --enable-shared by default. Also, several packages don't include Haddock documentation, such as haskell-regex-base, haskell-regex-compat, haskell-regex-posix, and haskell-hunit. Again, this is not exactly a show-stopper grade problem, but every so often I do work on a laptop without network access, and having the reference documentation installed locally on disk is quite helpful in that situation. I have reported those problems on this list before, and I have also filed bug reports in the ArchLinux tracker, but I cannot seem to get a response. So, if I had to choose between an ArchDev working on fixing those problems and an ArchDev working on GHC7 support, I'd rather have the problems in the existing package base fixed fist. Just my 2 cents ... Take care, Peter

Hi Rémy,

I have fixed those when building packages for GHC7, I'll backport it to the current extra packages.

great, thank you very much! Take care, Peter