Re: how to package Haskell libraries

2003-06-23 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 12:32:36PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > so random Python code is fairly likely to work with it :) You are thinking about Perl. Random Python code is likely to fail to compile. ;-) -m.

Re: how to package Haskell libraries

2003-06-23 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 04:38, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 09:07:05PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > > > Right, but that approach definitely has some disadvantages, namely > > fragility and the fact that we're kind of subverting the whole idea of > > binary packages. > >

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

Re: how to package Haskell libraries

2003-06-23 Thread David Roundy
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 10:38:40AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 09:07:05PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > > > Right, but that approach definitely has some disadvantages, namely > > fragility and the fact that we're kind of subverting the whole idea of > > binary packa

Re: how to package Haskell libraries

2003-06-23 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 09:07:05PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > Right, but that approach definitely has some disadvantages, namely > fragility and the fact that we're kind of subverting the whole idea of > binary packages. It kind of depends on what "Haskell library" means. Is it more like

Re: how to package Haskell libraries

2003-06-22 Thread Colin Walters
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 18:08, Alan Shutko wrote: > Isaac Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How would Debian prefer to see this? Some people tell me that it'll > > probably be too slow to build the packages on the end-user's system > > (as is done for elisp), > > That's also done with Commo

Re: how to package Haskell libraries

2003-06-22 Thread Alan Shutko
Isaac Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How would Debian prefer to see this? Some people tell me that it'll > probably be too slow to build the packages on the end-user's system > (as is done for elisp), That's also done with Common Lisp, and I don't think it's too slow (as an end-user). --

Re: how to package Haskell libraries

2003-06-22 Thread Ulrich Eckhardt
On Sunday 22 June 2003 19:45, Isaac Jones wrote: > 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

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