"putting" packages compatible with ghc 6.6

[Isaac Jones]

Ross Paterson <ross at soi.city.ac.uk> writes:

> On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:43:06PM -0800, Isaac Jones wrote:
>> I'm working on building a set of packages that are known to be
>> compatible with GHC 6.6:
>> 
>> http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/testing-6.6/
>> 
>> I'm working on a script to download and install haskell packages (from
>> unstable), and if they build, install them into "testing".
>
> Have you considered a setup like that used by Debian, with a single
> pool of packages, and a distribution being just a list of package-ids?
> It would be an extra level of indirection, but duplication can also
> be confusing, and having all the packages in the same place would be
> useful for other kinds of processing too.

It's a good idea, I'll look at that.

peace,

  isaac