Dear all, there exists an haskell platform¹, which is supposed to be a single set of libraries and tools across many operating systems. Notably, the platform includes the cabal tool. More often than not, people give up on using the ubuntu haskell packages because they want to use cabal.
Can we talk a little bit about steps for its possible inclusion in ubuntu? It seems that there is some interest in debian: http://orangesquash.org.uk/2009/07/04/debian-haskell-packaging-team-getting-underway/ Shall I just bother^H^H^H^H^H^H join them? Let me argue a bit why not. The platform is released every six months, so it makes a very good candidate for synchronised releases in ubuntu. This is why perhaps ubuntu might have lots more success by adding the platform by itself rather than just synchronising to debian (I expect them to include the platform at a given version, and then update it in the next release, so ubuntu would actually have outdated versions of the platform in its six-months cycle, defeating the sole purpose of the platform itself). Vincenzo [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
