Re[2]: Package versioning confusion

2007-04-03 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Donald, Tuesday, April 3, 2007, 4:31:28 AM, you wrote: >> the rest of the fps Jihad to future generations, where everything is a >> separate package, world hunger is solved, and all taxes are abolished... :-} > Yes, it will be a shiny new world order! And hackage will rule us all. you got

Re[2]: Package versioning confusion

2007-04-03 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Sven, Monday, April 2, 2007, 6:11:30 PM, you wrote: > the "internal" version, fix it so it works with all implementations and leave > the rest of the fps Jihad to future generations, where everything is a > separate package, world hunger is solved, and all taxes are abolished... :-} but Ca

Re: Package versioning confusion

2007-04-02 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
sven.panne: > On Monday 02 April 2007 15:44, Malcolm Wallace wrote: > > Done (although with some reluctance due to the general network slowness > > of darcs.haskell.org). In the new darcs-all, I am very keen to retain > > the ability to use package repos stored elsewhere (not at > > darcs.haskell.

Re: Package versioning confusion

2007-04-02 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
Malcolm.Wallace: > Sven Panne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * Malcolm: Could you move the polyparse repository from > > http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/darcs/polyparse to > > darcs.haskell.org/packages, please? This would make things more > > consistent. > > Done (although with some reluctance

Re: Package versioning confusion

2007-04-02 Thread Sven Panne
On Monday 02 April 2007 15:44, Malcolm Wallace wrote: > Done (although with some reluctance due to the general network slowness > of darcs.haskell.org). In the new darcs-all, I am very keen to retain > the ability to use package repos stored elsewhere (not at > darcs.haskell.org). Thanks, that wa

Re: Package versioning confusion

2007-04-02 Thread Malcolm Wallace
Sven Panne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Malcolm: Could you move the polyparse repository from > http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/darcs/polyparse to > darcs.haskell.org/packages, please? This would make things more > consistent. Done (although with some reluctance due to the general network slowne

Re: Package versioning confusion

2007-04-02 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
sven.panne: > On Monday 02 April 2007 13:51, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote: > > [...] > > nhc does use a base containing ByteString *but* it needed a couple of > > tweaks to compile. Those nhc patches are in the darcs repo, but not in > > the standard base yet. > > > > They will be on the next merge.

Re: Package versioning confusion

2007-04-02 Thread Sven Panne
On Monday 02 April 2007 13:51, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote: > [...] > nhc does use a base containing ByteString *but* it needed a couple of > tweaks to compile. Those nhc patches are in the darcs repo, but not in > the standard base yet. > > They will be on the next merge. [...] Could you merge jus

Re: Package versioning confusion

2007-04-02 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
sven.panne: > On Monday 02 April 2007 13:23, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote: > > [...] > > The other compilers should be using a base package with fps in it, as > > hugs and ghc do. > > > > fps as a package only exists as a seperate darcs repo for those systems > > that don't have bytestrings in base.

Re: Package versioning confusion

2007-04-02 Thread Sven Panne
On Monday 02 April 2007 13:23, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote: > [...] > The other compilers should be using a base package with fps in it, as > hugs and ghc do. > > fps as a package only exists as a seperate darcs repo for those systems > that don't have bytestrings in base. I.e. older GHC's, and nhc

Re: Package versioning confusion

2007-04-02 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
sven.panne: > I'm currently trying to unify the darcs-all scripts for GHC/Hugs/nhc, adding > a "--release" option on the way, which is inteded to retrieve fixed versions > from Hackage instead of the latest & greatest stuff from darcs repos. Looking > at nhc's package list, I found a few issues:

Package versioning confusion

2007-04-02 Thread Sven Panne
I'm currently trying to unify the darcs-all scripts for GHC/Hugs/nhc, adding a "--release" option on the way, which is inteded to retrieve fixed versions from Hackage instead of the latest & greatest stuff from darcs repos. Looking at nhc's package list, I found a few issues: * Iavor's package