[arch-haskell] Improve user experience with Haskell

[Fabien Dubosson]

Hello dear ArchHaskellers,

I wanted to inform you that the wiki page [1] has been created and
filled up to my knowledge. Of course it is certainly not complete nor
error free, so any correction/improvement is welcome (especially for
grammar and spelling mistakes, as I am not English native, as you may
have noticed ;).

The link to the page, to save you 2 seconds:

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Haskell

Kind regards,
Fabien


On 29. 12. 13 19:31, Fabien Dubosson 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 packages because a lot are outdated/orphan.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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