[arch-haskell] Another tool for packaging Haskell

Magnus Therning magnus at therning.org
Tue May 3 16:28:57 CEST 2011


Just to show what HABS would look like using this tool I've put up a
full repository here: http://db.tt/0aRhLWE (under newhabs).

/M

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 17:30, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
> Since Planet Haskell hasn't been updating for a long time I thought
> I'd point to a blog post of mine on a tool I've been working on for a
> while:
>
>  http://therning.org/magnus/archives/914
>
> It's something I started working on earlier this year, after it became
> painfully obvious just how much work it was to check dependencies when
> updating the packages in ArchHaskell.  That was pretty much all it was
> good for then, but it proved to be a big time saver when used in
> concert with cabal2arch.  Lately I've been working on integrating
> PKGBUILD generation, which basically means that a repo like
> https://github.com/archhaskell/habs can be replaced by a database and
> a set of package-specific patches.
>
> I still haven't gotten around to uploading it to Hackage, it needs
> some minor cosmetic changes (like a proper version number), but please
> let me know if you think a tool like this would be useful.
>
> /M
>
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