[arch-haskell] GHC 7.4.1 or HP 2011.4.0.0??

[Fabio Riga]

Hi all,

after some time trying to maintain a repository with ghc-7.2 I fell a
little frustrated about the Haskell community in general: ghc developers
release new version as "stable", (7.2 and 7.4) but recommend to use Haskell
Platform. For this reason many packages work with 7.2 (so I suppose they
will work with 7.4 as well) and many others need the older version.

I've already voted for 7.2 in the past, and now I would like to see 7.4 in
arch as soon as possible, but many packages will not compile with ghc-7.4
(leksah...). On the other hand Haskell Platform is too old for many new
package (for example yesod or snap).

Maybe we should have a ghc-7.4.1 package and a ghc-7.0.4 (in Arch we have
for example python(3) and python2, ruby1.9 and ruby1.8). This would imply
having two version of some other package and could be very complicated to
maintain. If there are enough maintainers (4-5) IMHO we should try this.
Otherwise I vote for ghc-7.4 and to drop packages that fails with it.

Fabio

2012/2/5 Leif Warner <abimelech at gmail.com>

> I vote for 7.4.1.  Things are moving beyond 7.0.4.  HP is a nice idea, but
> I've never really used it on Arch - I just install the Haskell packages I
> need and their dependencies are automatically installed.
> Here, I view it more of a "blessed baseline" for the larger goal of
> supporting as many useful Haskell packages together as possible.
>
> -Leif
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 7:28 AM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org>wrote:
>
>> It's been out for a day now... this would be a good time to decide
>> whether ArchLinux should be bold and move to a haskell-platform-free
>> state, or trudge on with HP and the ache it causes.
>>
>> If we're moving to 7.4.1 there's a lot of work with getting
>> ArchHaskell in shape for it, so the longer notice the better :)
>>
>> If we're to trudge on with HP then we really ought to move to
>> 2011.4.0.0, which also means a new version of GHC and a lot of work on
>> ArchHaskell, so the longer notice the better :)
>>
>> Please, please, please, can we move on this soon?
>>
>> I'm available to help out with [extra]&[community] packages if need
>> be, updating PKGBUILDs, building, verifying other's changes, etc.
>>
>> /M
>>
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