Hi, Am Sonntag, den 22.08.2010, 10:55 +0100 schrieb Andrew Coppin:
Browsing around Hackage, I notice that a seemingly random subset of packages are available for something called "arch linux". Presumably some sort of automatic conversion system is involved, but does anyone know why only certain packages appear?
I've noticed that both Debian and OpenSUSE have a very tiny selection of binary Haskell packages too. I'm guessing that these packages are also auto-generated, but presumably selected by hand. (I also don't recall seeing them listed on Hackage.) Anybody know about that?
I wouldn’t call almost 200 packages¹ a „very tiny selection“ :-) These packages are not auto-generated, but still hand-built and hand-uploaded in every version. The Haskell Team makes selects the packages, decides whether a version updated is required (for example changes that only fix the buildability on win32 do not warrant an upload to Debian) and fixes bugs. This should be a very stable base with most important libraries to build on, without any "cabal hell". More information can be found on http://wiki.debian.org/Haskell. The distro listing on hackages was actually implemented by me a while ago, the text file Ivan mentioned can be found on http://people.debian.org/~nomeata/cabalDebianMap.txt and is generated daily by a cron job. Greetings, Joachim ¹ http://pkg-haskell.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/pet.cgi plus a few packages not maintained by the team -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner mail: mail@joachim-breitner.de | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Key: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://www.joachim-breitner.de/ Debian Developer: nomeata@debian.org