Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 00:20:54 +0200 From: Gabor PALI <pgj@FreeBSD.org> To: Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru> Cc: cvs-ports@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/archivers/hs-zip-archive Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/devel/hs-binary Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/devel/hs-darcs/files patch-Setup.lhs patch-darcs.cabal ports/devel/hs-darcs Makefile distinfo pkg-d Message-ID: <AANLkTikBXrbZpHaLJN3eVA80RQfJHLOaBLFFK1CNbnh7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100524220501.GF7380@hades.panopticon> References: <AANLkTil2ds1NMcOVfF6_R3bCkIb1SPOnLMkagLWt90nk@mail.gmail.com> <20100524220501.GF7380@hades.panopticon>
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On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru> wrote: > What's the purpose for renaming them at all? All of them are transcripts of Cabal packages coming from HackageDB [1]. > In the first place, those are end-user applications named darcs, xmonad etc. And some of them are applications as well. I would like to achieve a consistent naming to see what is coming from there and what is not. (For example, lang/pugs, deskutils/checkrdf or devel/lhs2TeX are not from there but still written in Haskell). As a next step, I would like to port Haskell Platform [2] to FreeBSD, so the users can decide whether they want to use hackages from ports or simply use HP and use cabal-install to add packages. These two alternatives would be mutually exclusive since using cabal-install interferes with the Ports Collection. Using FreeBSD ports has its usual advantages (binary install, correct dependencies, things build out-of-the-box, etc.), while using HP would mean a direct access to the "bleeding edge" of Haskell software with compilation from sources and a risk that packages might not build. > should be named darcs and xmonad correspondingly, regardless of > language they're written in and regardless of whether they install > modules for that language. Sorry that I did not discuss this idea in front of a larger audience in advance. I thought (perhaps I was wrong) that these ports are not used by so many users, so it is an acceptable cost. Of course, I am happy to have comments on the subject, I am very interested in the generic feedback. Cheers, :g [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/ [2] http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/
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