Fyi, the is a specific arch-haskell mailing list which will probably get you a better answer to your question. I cc'd them for you.
~Rickey On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Clark Gaebel <[email protected]> wrote: > Personally, I like the latest version of GHC being in the repository, as > that's the version I normally use. > > What packages aren't working for you on 7.6? I find that they get updated > pretty quickly, and if you run into any that aren't, feel free to send the > authors a pull request. Almost everything is on github. > > - Clark > > On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 4:49 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> Who is in charge of the ghc and haskell packages on Arch linux? The >> current system isn't working. >> >> Arch linux tends to update packages very quickly. >> >> For ghc, always having the latest ghc isn't a good thing. At least if >> you actually want to get some work done. A majority of the time the latest >> GHC is unusable. This is because the packages in hackage simply don't keep >> up. With the current ghc version(7.6.1) even some basic packages in >> hackage are not upgraded yet. >> >> Right now, a large number of other haskell related packages are in the >> arch repos. Other than gtk2hs, I think these packages are pointless >> duplications. In the other cases, it has been my experience that it is >> simpler to maintain these packages through cabal rather than through >> pacman. Support for these packages in Arch should probably be dropped. >> >> If you want to get work done in Arch with haskell, you should only >> install ghc and cabal-install(right now, you'll have to search the Internet >> for the old binaries, because the arch repos usually don't keep the old >> versions around). Then you should add these packages to "IgnorePkg =" in >> pacman.conf this way things won't break every couple of months. You can >> then choose to upgrade when you wish. >> >> I hope that someone who is involved with the haskell Arch stuff reads >> this. The current model needs to be rethought. Linux should be sane by >> default, but I've lost many many hours learning that arch's relationship >> with haskell is not so :( Probably the best solution would be to make Arch >> automatically keep two versions of ghc around at any given time. >> >> Thank you for your time, >> Timothy Hobbs >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > >
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