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

[Magnus Therning]

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?

Pandoc is now back in the repo.  Unfortunately pandoc-citeproc still
doesn't build with 7.10 though.

/M

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