Il 30/04/2013 09:06, Magnus Therning ha scritto:

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Leif Warner wrote:

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What gives?

There are a few dbus packages on hackage. The one in [haskell-core] is DBus (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/DBus) which is rather old, and quite possibly a candidate for removal (I'll have to check later today). The dbus package in [haskell-web] seems to be dbus (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/dbus), which is newer and looks to be better maintained (AFAICS it's also a dependency of github-annex).

Not a particularly good answer, but maybe Fabio can fill in a little more details

Reading from hackage, I can tell you that DBUS is binding to the API, dbus is implemented in Haskell. The first fails with ghc-7.0, so I don't know why anybody would use it. As Magnus already told you, the reason for dbus presence in [haskell-web] is because it is a dependency of git-annex. Fabio

Thanks for the explanation! It was a little confusing with them both being lowercase - at least on hackage, they're differentiated by case. I had noticed this because an (optional) dependency of xmobar is dbus >= 0.10, but "pacman -S haskell-dbus" would only get me the one from [core]. -Leif On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 6:02 AM, Magnus Therning wrote:

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Fabio Riga wrote:

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Il 30/04/2013 09:06, Magnus Therning ha scritto:

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On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Leif Warner wrote:

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What gives?

There are a few dbus packages on hackage. The one in [haskell-core] is DBus (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/DBus) which is rather old, and quite possibly a candidate for removal (I'll have to check later today). The dbus package in [haskell-web] seems to be dbus (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/dbus), which is newer and looks to be better maintained (AFAICS it's also a dependency of github-annex).

Not a particularly good answer, but maybe Fabio can fill in a little more details

Reading from hackage, I can tell you that DBUS is binding to the API, dbus is implemented in Haskell. The first fails with ghc-7.0, so I don't know why anybody would use it. As Magnus already told you, the reason for dbus presence in [haskell-web] is because it is a dependency of git-annex.

DBus does build just fine with minor patches, which are present in HABS :) But I also don't understand why anyone would use it. I'll look into removing it ASAP.

/M

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