[arch-haskell] Re: What to do now?

Rémy Oudompheng remyoudompheng at gmail.com
Tue Oct 12 13:49:23 EDT 2010


On 2010/10/12 Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 13:22, Rémy Oudompheng <remyoudompheng at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2010/10/12 Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:09, Rémy Oudompheng <remyoudompheng at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I am strongly bothered by the fact that the PkgBuild "Show" function
>>>> is implemented in cabal2arch and not in the archlinux module, is there
>>>> anybody against merging them together ?
>>>
>>> I was actually more bothered about the number of executables that are
>>> contained in archlinux; my initial thought was to break them out and
>>> put them in cabal2arch, thereby making archlinux a pure library
>>> package. ;-)
>>
>> I personally think that archlinux itself has too many dependencies.
>> I'd like to have three packages
>> - archlinux: a set of libraries needed for cabal2arch and managing the repos
>> - cabal2arch: cabal2arch + basic scripts to find upstream updates and
>> do database-like operations
>> - archlinux-report: library+programs used to upload to AUR, interact
>> with website, update web pages etc.
>
> I like this split.  Is it something that you would like to prototype?

I split archlinux into archlinux and archlinux-web, feel free to pull
my repo [*]. archlinux is now buildable with only GHC. To ease moving
files around, I've put everything together.

[*] http://github.com/remyoudompheng/haskell-archlinux

-- 
Rémy.


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