On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:41:06PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
Am Donnerstag, den 15.05.2008, 22:09 -0600 schrieb Justin Bogner:
Braden Shepherdson wrote: I don't see why a ghc dependency is a big deal in environments like debian and ubuntu, other than the fact that they lagged way behind on versions until recently. The overhead of installing ghc in order to edit the config is similar to the overhead of installing, say, python so that you can run a python app. Disk space is cheap and package management is transparent these days.
It's not cheap for everyone, ghc6 might be lagging behind on certain architectures and I'm sure that some Debian users would like the possibility of having a simple configuration file
Does debian really allow binary haskell packages to be uploaded for architectures where they can't be built using a ghc haskell?! That just seems insane. I agree with Braden that adding yet another config file format won't do our users any good, and that the issue of a ghc install is a red herring. David