From xyne at archlinux.ca  Sun Jul 10 22:23:51 2016
From: xyne at archlinux.ca (Xyne)
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 22:23:51 +0000
Subject: [arch-haskell] Anyone up for developing a Hackage extension for
 Pacboy based on cblrepo?
Message-ID: <20160710222351.3fcb1848@archlinux.ca>

Hi all,

I have been gradually working on a new common backend for my different pacman
wrappers and helper tools. It is finally available for testing here[1]. One of
the main features is that it is extensible: developers can add build support
for both Pacman and non-Pacman repos by implementing 3 subclasses in a Python
module.

It should be possible to add support for Hackage with cblrepo and the other
tools currently used to maintain arch-haskell. Most users will presumably
prefer to continue to use the pre-compiled binary GHC package in the repo but
being able to easily built it and other packages would be interesting,
especially if it could support a larger subset of Hackage than what is
available in arch-haskell currently.

Anyway, if Magnus or anyone else wants to play around with it and discuss
ideas, please visit the thread. I hope that there will eventually be
numerous quality extensions for various third-party repos (e.g. Hackage, CPAN,
PyPI, RubyGems, etc.).

Regards,
Xyne

[1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=214706