On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Joachim Breitner
Hi,
Am Donnerstag, den 09.02.2012, 11:39 +0000 schrieb Chris Dornan:
(I do think that we could be delivering the tools with a little more packaging that could significantly help with these situations. I have found them to be highly useful in any case.)
if you are content with not always having the very latest versions, you can use your distribution’s packages. Distributions tend to provide exactly one (well, at most one :-)) version of each hackage library, and they all go well together.
But then, for a few more days, Debian sid is broken due to the GHC 7.4.1 transition...
Greetings, Joachim
Firstly, Yesod 0.10 is out, so if you upgrade, there shouldn't be any more dependency hell. I'm highly optimistic that there won't be much more of this kind of pain in the future. As far as using distribution packages: I've recommended against it in the past, due to the combination of Yesod's speed of development and the lack of package coverage. However, we're getting to a point now where Yesod development is stabilizing on solid APIs, and the distribution packages are beginning to cover many more dependencies. Perhaps by Yesod 1.0 (hopefully available next month), it will be a real possibility to depend entirely on distribution packages. I might start to experiment with that myself soon, don't be surprised if you hear some questions from me. Michael