[arch-haskell] Upgrading to monad-control-0.3

[Magnus Therning]

On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 08:11:31PM +0100, Nicolas Pouillard wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 11:21:22AM +0100, Nicolas Pouillard wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> To package the latest and greatest version of git-annex I need to
>>> have monad-control-0.3.
>>>
>>> However this depend on the update of yesod and would break mongoDB
>>> as well.
>>>
>>> I'm quite short on times these days and would like to know if this
>>> is gonna happen soon or not?
>>>
>>> In the meantime I email the author of the mongoDB haskell package.
>>
>> It's *very* unlikely to happen.  As you probably noticed yourself
>> any update to yesod would necessitate an update of attoparsec to at
>> least 0.10, which in turn requires an update to text and text lives
>> in [extra].
> 
> I didn't remember that this was so constrained. Did someone asked
> the maintainer? If there are good reasons to keep one of these
> packages at an old version then we should consider having multiple
> versions of such packages. I heartly persuaded that while we should
> keep that at a minimum we should have some packages at multiple
> versions.

This sort of situation is what is keeping a lot of [haskell] behind
what's on hackage; the packages in [extra]/[community] (especially
haskell-platform of course) tend to put some rather strict limits on
what can be upgraded.

I'm not convinced keeping multiple versions of packages is a good
option though.  I personally think that the better option would be to
make sure we remove the obstacles currently in place that prevent us
from tracking the edge of hackage.

/M

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