The Debian community should influence the next Haskell language standard

2006-01-29 Thread Isaac Jones
Fellow Debianers, I'm helping to organize the process of creating the next version of Haskell[1], and I really want it to be a language that Debian developers can use. The Haskell programming language is more-or-less divided into two "branches". The Haskell 98 standard is the "stable" branch of t

Announcement: APT Secure

2003-06-26 Thread Isaac Jones
Greetings :) "APT Secure" is the working name of a project to add to APT the ability to verify the authenticity of Debian packages. It accomplishes this via a chain of trust which is initiated by the package maintainers and ends on the installing machine. This is a call to the community to help

Re: how to package Haskell libraries

2003-06-23 Thread Isaac Jones
"Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It kind of depends on what "Haskell library" means. Is it more like a > C library (potentially complex build system, dependencies, etc) or is > it more like a Perl module? As David Roundy sorta indicated, it could be either one. Building Ha

how to package Haskell libraries

2003-06-22 Thread Isaac Jones
Greetings, There has been a lot of discussion recently on the Haskell mailing lists about the best ways to package Haskell libraries and tools for Debian. The main issues are: 1) there are a variety of "compiler" implementations, one of which is an interpreter :) 2) not all Haskell implementati