sven.panne:
I'm currently trying to unify the darcs-all scripts for GHC/Hugs/nhc, adding a "--release" option on the way, which is inteded to retrieve fixed versions from Hackage instead of the latest & greatest stuff from darcs repos. Looking at nhc's package list, I found a few issues:
* Iavor's package is called "monadLib", but the darcs repo on darcs.haskell.org is called "monad". I propose to simply rename that directory to match "monadLib". There is already an empty directory of the same name there, so somebody else was obviously confused, too. If nobody yells soon, I'll do this renaming.
* Malcolm: Could you move the polyparse repository from http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/darcs/polyparse to darcs.haskell.org/packages, please? This would make things more consistent.
* Finally, I am utterly confused by the fps package: There is a version 0.7 on Hackage, the repo at http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/code/fps seems to contain a 0.8 version, and we finally have a version somehow integrated into the base package, all with different APIs/#ifdefs/etc. Help!!! Which version
Version 0.7 is the last stable release. It should be compile with GHC 6.4.2 and earlier. The version in base corresponds to this version, with one or two safety tweaks (unfortunately). Version 0.8 is the unreleased darcs version, to be merged into base, in a week or two (after we replace the array fusion system).
compiles with which Haskell implementation? Which is the most current version? Will we split this from base? I know that there have been epic discussions on the libraries list, but after >20 mails I was somehow lost. If we want to keep this in base for some time, it should at least be assured
As far as I know it has not yet been decided to split it out. We'll be tagging and released fps 0.8 (only for ghc 6.4.2 and earlier), and the same code wil appear in base, in a couple of weeks, hopefully.
that it compiles with all Haskell implementations, so we could nuke the explicit "fps" package from nhc's package list. It can be re-added later, but please in synch with the rest of the implementations. Using it currently must be a nightmare for packagers/users due to this versionitis... :-/
The other compilers should be using a base package with fps in it, as hugs and ghc do. fps as a package only exists as a seperate darcs repo for those systems that don't have bytestrings in base. I.e. older GHC's, and nhc98 (not Hugs or GHC 6.6). Does that help clear things up? Effectively there is *no* fps package really -- its suppposed to be part of base, as ghc and hugs have it. -- Don