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Date:      Fri, 10 Feb 2017 18:44:57 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 216707] exp-run: Update lang/gcc from GCC 4.9 to GCC 5
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--- Comment #37 from arrowd <6yearold@gmail.com> ---
(In reply to John Marino from comment #36)

> Your proposal needs to include all CPAN, rubygems, and python ports that =
fall into the same category, then, no?

I can't say for these languages, as I haven't used them.
When Haskell ports were starting, Haskell package ecosystem was in such sta=
te,
that you would quickly get into dependencies hell if you install packages
globally (read /usr/local). Haskell ports were solving this problem by
providing subset of all Haskell packages that are guaranteed to work togeth=
er.
But now=20
a) Haskell package manager has "sandbox" feature that allows to easily prep=
are
whatever environment you need.
b) There is ports-like project that releases package sets with
known-to-work-together versions.
So now ports are complete duplication of this work.

> Nudge the Haskell team.  They might be quiet but they are still around.

Last post on maillist was October 2015. Last commit in the development repo=
 was
on February 2016. IRC channel is silent for 6 months. Even when the team was
active, it was only pgj@, so there isn't a team even.

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