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... 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. 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! 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. Every package also install a hoogle database. 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 ;) 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. 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. Cheers, Andrea