[arch-haskell] GHC 7.10, and popular packages like Pandoc

Skottish skottish97215 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 7 17:40:58 UTC 2015


On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 07:23:16PM +0200, Dawid Loubser wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>Since upgrading to GHC 7.10, I am unable to build (e.g. via a straight
>"cabal install") pandoc, and I note it's current absence from the
>arch-haskell repo.
>
>I depend on pandoc in a major way, and I was wondering if anybody got it
>to work? I have myself fixed and submitted pull requests for some minor
>libraries that my own code uses (mime, iCalendar, etc) but I figure that
>somebody is surely working on something as prominent as pandoc?
>
>What's the lie of the land? Should I jump in and try my best? (I fear
>many days of pain might be involved, pandoc has deep dependencies...). I
>am not a Haskell expert yet. Is somebody working on these?
>
>kind regards,
>Dawid Loubser

The following link suggests that pandoc from git is working:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pandoc-discuss/J5lKA8LLUSI


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