mle+hs:
Joachim Breitner wrote:
looking at http://debian.glondu.net/monitor/ocaml/ocaml_transition_monitor.html I get the impression that the Ocaml guys need to re-build everything when a new Ocaml library
I assume you mean compiler there?
comes out, but not when just a dependency was upgraded. Is that right?
I'm not really sure about that.
Ocaml libraries seem (warning, generalizations follow) seem to be fewer in number that Haskell but be more comprehensive. Haskell has far more small libraries and as a result, Haskell projects often have much deeper and wider dependency trees than similar Ocaml projects.
The difference is cabal-install: automated dependency resolving makes for more packages.
If it is so, we have an excuse due to our slightly more complicated procedure.
Yes, I agree that the Haskell problem is a more difficult example of the same problems the Ocaml maintainers face. There may also be parts which the Ocaml maintainers don't have to face at all, but in general, the Haskell problem is similar to the Ocaml one.
Also, how do they get it in 24 – don’t they have to wait, for each level in the dependency tree, for the former level to have been built on a buildd, upload signed by a buildd admin and them moved to the archive with the next mirror push?
Also, the Haskell libs are updating more frequently (more of them, and more updates). We're averaging 10 updates a day atm: http://www.galois.com/~dons/images/hackage-daily-graph.png -- Don