[arch-haskell] [arch-general] Haskell Support Was: Xmonad version?

[Magnus Therning]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:51:27AM -0800, Bernardo Barros wrote:
> Yes, but they do a lot of testing with those packages in HP project.
> We don't have man power to do this, we better go with HP I think.

And here we disagree :-)

My impression is that there is no *testing* in HP at all, instead they
choose the latest stable version of GHC and a set of packages at
versions that fit together, sometimes they are the most recent most
often they aren't.  Some choices are even outright questionable, like
OpenGL.

IMNSHO haskell platform only makes sense for systems that lack a
proper packaging system, where it makes available a convenient
installer.

As I understand "the Arch way" it means using the *latest* stable
release.  A good example of this is the move to python3.  I think
Haskell shouldn't be treated in any other way.

/M

-- 
Magnus Therning                      OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 
email: magnus at therning.org   jabber: magnus at therning.org
twitter: magthe               http://therning.org/magnus

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with
millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural
integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
     -- Alan Kay
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 198 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/arch-haskell/attachments/20111220/5e3e0121/attachment.pgp>