On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 19:46 +0100, Andrea Rossato wrote:
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 06:58:58PM +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote:
Please don't give up on packaging for Slackware, packaging is so important. I'm sorry that stuff changes. There are usually good reasons for these changes but I do accept that we need to consider transitions more and document changes.
No, I will not give up...
Great, I'm glad to hear it. :-)
And I also understand that the change was no arbitrary, but done in order to comply with the standard way of dealing with documentation in the linux file system.
Yes. The default was wrong and different distro want to put them in different places anyway so it has to be configurable.
And indeed my build scripts result now simpler than before. Still, due to some issues with ghc docs generation, I found out about this problem after a couple of days spent in dealing with ghc, and only after all the creation of the build scripts for the last library split had been done... That can be frustrating, believe me: writing shell scripts is not what I like most!
Yes, we've been having similar issues with doc generation in ghc-6.8.1. There are several bugs open about it. They're not going into a versioned ghc doc directory by default and the inter-package links are not getting created. We hope this will be fixed in 6.8.2.
I hope tomorrow I'll be able to find the time to write a small announcement for the haskell-cafe ML, but the Slackware packages are now available here: http://gorgias.mine.nu/slack/haskell/
At the present time ghc and ghc-extralibs are available. More will be added later (as soon as compilable with the new tool chain). The documentation is decent I would say.
Great.
Every package also install a hoogle database.
Oh that's a good idea. We should do that in gentoo too.
Those databases are collected together in /var/spool/hoogle/hoogle.
I have this alias my .bashrc: alias hoogle="hoogle -l /var/spool/hoogle/hoogle"
For every package there is a corresponding build (shell) script. These scrips are collected in a darcs repository available here: http://gorgias.mine.nu/repos/haskell-SlackBuild/
(I'm thinking about writing a small haskell application to manage a direct interaction between slackware and hackage, with an automated SlackBuild script generation, which is probably going to be less resource consuming in the long run, and more enjoyable in the short one ;)
Yes, that's what we do for Gentoo. We have a program that generates ebuild scripts directly from the hackage index. We've got about 150 hackage packages via this route. You might like to look into adapting our code: darcs get --partial http://haskell.org/~gentoo/hackport/ It's not been fully updated to deal with the new features in Cabal-1.2 yet.
Finally, OpenLA and ALUT are not present since the relative libraries are missing from a standard Slackware install. ObjectIO is not present too. X11 has been updated to 1.3.0 since I will be releasing xmobar-0.8 (a status bar for XMonad), and it requires that version with the X11-extras merge.
Sounds sensible.
Sorry for writing more to express my frustration than for a real need. Anyhow, when I said you did a great job I was not ironic or kidding. I really think it.
No problem. Sorry for the upheavals. Duncan