[arch-haskell] Stable, Vetted Hackage

[Michael Snoyman]

I definitely think there's a lot of room for collaboration here. I've been
in touch with maintainers for other Linux distributions, and I think
Stackage could become a project where different distros are all able to
work together. Stackage is also set up in a way right now that seems to fit
Arch's rolling release cycle.

To start off with, I would recommend using Stackage as a way to get a list
of packages and their versions which work together correctly (the generated
build-plan.log). You could then use automate a process to make Arch
versions of all those packages.

Stackage provides a library in addition to an executable, and it can be
extended to provide support for whatever facilities you need. This would
also allow you to add in packages which are not currently part of the
"official" Stackage set of packages. By using Stackage, you'll get a few
benefits:

* A tool which is well tested for confirming that packages work well
together.
* The ability to work with other developers outside of Arch to improve this
tooling.
* As a community resource, I think Stackage stands a better chance of
getting necessary modifications merged upstream. I've so far had very
positive responses from package maintainers I've interacted with; I don't
think a requested change has yet taken over a week to get implemented.

All that said, I'm not intimately familiar with the Arch Haskell processes
and what hurdles you're trying to overcome. If you have concrete
objectives, let me know what they are, and I'd be happy to figure out with
you if Stackage would help achieve them.

Michael


On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 5:55 AM, Ramana Kumar <ramana at member.fsf.org> wrote:

> Dear Michael, Arch Haskell,
>
> I saw this in the Haskell Weekly News recently:
> http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2012/11/stable-vetted-hackage
>
> I would like to propose that Arch Linux and the Hackage-packaging
> community project therein also be involved :)
>
> Some information about the Arch Haskell project is here
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Haskell_package_guidelines
>
> I believe yesod and its dependencies, for example, are available in our
> [haskell-web] repository, and we (mainly Fabian and Magnus) are doing a
> great job of keeping it all working and up-to-date.
> How might this interface with stackage?
>
> Do you (on either side) see potential for collaboration?
>
> Cheers,
> Ramana
>
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