[arch-haskell] Improve user experience with Haskell

[Ramana Kumar]

It sounds like a good idea.
The existing wiki page (package guidelines) already does some explaining as
per your first improvement - so you may want to lift some of the text there
for use on the more prominent (haskell) wiki page.


On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Fabien Dubosson <fabien.dubosson at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hello ArchHaskellers,
>
> This thread follows a discussion started on github [1].
>
> Brief summary: The discussion started from a pull request to make
> `haskell-archlinux` work with GHC 7.6.3. Magnus informed me that this
> project is nearly abandoned and asked for my usage of it. I answered
> that my goal was to write an Haskell tool to monitor AUR `haskell-*`
> packages because a lot are outdated/orphan. Then Magnus explained me
> that you decided to drop AUR support some years ago. Finally I gave the
> reasons of my original idea and we agreed to port the discussion here.
>
> The original observation that brings me planning to monitor AUR packages
> came from the forum. People continue to use AUR packages (or even cabal)
> for Haskell because they don't know that an ArchHaskell effort exist to
> bring, in a clean way, Haskell packages to Archlinux. For me, the two
> reasons are 1. all old `haskell-*` packages still exist in AUR, and 2.
> the informations about [haskell-core] repo are «hidden» in the Haskell
> packaging guidelines page in the wiki — not an obvious place for normal
> users.
>
> So to improve user experience with Haskell I suggest two improvements:
>
>   1. Create a `Haskell` page in the wiki to explain:
>     - What is Haskell
>     - The different ways to handle packages (AUR/Cabal/ArchHaskell)
>     - All other Haskell-related stuffs (Haskell-platform, etc...)
>   2. Remove from AUR all `haskell-*` packages that are both:
>     - Not needed as dependency of another package, and
>     - Orphan
>
> So any observations, objections, suggestions, recommendations before I
> start to work on that (i.e. create the wiki page and prepare the list)?
>
> Kind regards,
> Fabien
>
> [1] https://github.com/archhaskell/archlinux/pull/14
>
>
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