[Haskell-cafe] GHC maintenance on Arch

[Malcolm Wallace]

I think you will find that the Original Poster did not ask about ArchHaskell, but rather about Haskell on the Arch platform.  He was completely unaware of ArchHaskell as a project.  This might be a source of some confusion, and help to explain divergent attitudes.

Regards,
    Malcolm

On 29 Oct 2012, at 14:41, Magnus Therning wrote:

> Please stay on topic, this is *not* a discussion about Haskell
> Platform[1], it's a discussion on ArchHaskell[2].  Please read up on
> the mailing list archives first, and then, if you still feel there's a
> need to discuss HP in ArchHaskell (which isn't the same thing as Arch
> itself) then please start a new thread.
> 
> /M
> 
> [1]: http://www.haskell.org/platform/
> [2]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ArchHaskell
> 
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 5:56 AM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Now I'm going to run the risk of upsetting you quite a bit by being
>>> completely blunt.
>> 
>> 
>> Indeed.
>> 
>>> 
>>> You come across in your mail like someone who has thought through your
>>> own situation, but fail to see the larger picture.  You do know *your*
>> 
>> 
>> May I ask you a question, then?
>> 
>> Does the Haskell Platform have any reason to exist?
>> 
>> Supposedly, the Haskell community backs the Haskell Platform as the way that
>> most users should be using the Platform.  Yet we have here a vendor platform
>> which does not support it, and newcomers who notice this and question it are
>> chastised for not thinking about the needs of other people.  This suggests
>> that the Haskell Platform is unimportant and perhaps disruptive to some
>> significant group of people... is this so?
>> 
>> And then, looking at your own message, I must ask:  have you considered that
>> the Platform is aimed at the great many people who do not have large amounts
>> of expertise maintaining their own personal Haskell ecosystem.  Or are your
>> needs so important that these people must in fact be told to deal?
>> 
>> Or, to phrase in your own words:
>> 
>>> You come across in your mail like someone who has thought through your
>>> own situation, but fail to see the larger picture.
>> 
>> 
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>> 
> 
> 
> 
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