<font face="verdana,sans-serif">Personally, I like the latest version of GHC being in the repository, as that's the version I normally use.</font><div><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana,sans-serif">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.</font></div>
<div><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana,sans-serif"> - Clark<br></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 4:49 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:timothyhobbs@seznam.cz" target="_blank">timothyhobbs@seznam.cz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Hello,<br>Who is in charge of the ghc and haskell packages on Arch
linux? The current system isn't working.<br><br>Arch linux tends to
update packages very quickly.<br><br>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.
<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Thank
you for your time,<br>Timothy Hobbs<br></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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