I'm interested in trying Haskell, particularly parsec, for some parsing problems. Things seem pretty unsettled (I track testing usually, though can get unstable), and I wonder if anyone could suggest what the best approach for me to take would be.
It seems that neither testing nor unstable has a full suite of packages, since when I try out upgrades to 6.8 in aptitude a lot of stuff gets knocked out.
I'm on i386; since some of the trouble seems to be on other architectures I'm hoping this will help.
More generally, what's up with the packages? I see a patchwork, but I don't understand what's driving it.
Thanks for packaging Haskell for Debian.
Ross Boylan
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 08:54:50PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
I'm interested in trying Haskell, particularly parsec, for some parsing problems. Things seem pretty unsettled (I track testing usually, though can get unstable), and I wonder if anyone could suggest what the best approach for me to take would be.
It seems that neither testing nor unstable has a full suite of packages, since when I try out upgrades to 6.8 in aptitude a lot of stuff gets knocked out.
I'm on i386; since some of the trouble seems to be on other architectures I'm hoping this will help.
testing has ghc6 6.6.1-2 which includes parsec.
In unstable, ghc6 6.8.2-4 and libghc6-parsec-dev 2.1.0.0-2 are both available for i386.
More generally, what's up with the packages? I see a patchwork, but I don't understand what's driving it.
I haven't really been following the bigger picture; I'm still waiting for mips/mipsel/powerpc/s390 to build ghc6.
Thanks Ian
On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 13:21 +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote:
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 08:54:50PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
I'm interested in trying Haskell, particularly parsec, for some parsing problems. Things seem pretty unsettled (I track testing usually, though can get unstable), and I wonder if anyone could suggest what the best approach for me to take would be.
It seems that neither testing nor unstable has a full suite of packages, since when I try out upgrades to 6.8 in aptitude a lot of stuff gets knocked out.
I'm on i386; since some of the trouble seems to be on other architectures I'm hoping this will help.
testing has ghc6 6.6.1-2 which includes parsec.
Not at the moment: $ apt-show-versions -a libghc6-parsec-dev Not installed No testing version libghc6-parsec-dev 2.1.0.0-2 unstable
In unstable, ghc6 6.8.2-4 and libghc6-parsec-dev 2.1.0.0-2 are both available for i386.
But it seems lots of other packages aren't available for 6.8.
More generally, what's up with the packages? I see a patchwork, but I don't understand what's driving it.
I haven't really been following the bigger picture; I'm still waiting for mips/mipsel/powerpc/s390 to build ghc6.
Thanks Ian
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:54:07AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 13:21 +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote:
testing has ghc6 6.6.1-2 which includes parsec.
Not at the moment: $ apt-show-versions -a libghc6-parsec-dev Not installed No testing version libghc6-parsec-dev 2.1.0.0-2 unstable
There is no libghc6-parsec-dev because ghc6 includes parsec.
Thanks Ian
Ian Lynagh wrote:
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:54:07AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 13:21 +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote:
testing has ghc6 6.6.1-2 which includes parsec.
Not at the moment: $ apt-show-versions -a libghc6-parsec-dev Not installed No testing version libghc6-parsec-dev 2.1.0.0-2 unstable
There is no libghc6-parsec-dev because ghc6 includes parsec.
you can see what haskell libs are available on your system using 'ghc-pkg list'.
/M
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