haskell-devel February 2008

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[Fedora-haskell-list] Progress Update: 17th February 2008
by Yaakov Nemoy 17 Feb '08

17 Feb '08

Hey List, I've been doing some work on the haskell guidelines this weekend. * Some of the comments from this list that seemed relevant to guidelines directly have been copied over and attributed * Some of the comments have been properly attributed * The guidelines have been edited for clarity or based on new knowledge * I have some minor patches for cabal-rpm to fix a few of the random criticisms I've received, i'll send them up in a bit * I've repackaged zlib as a sample library package, and updated the review request to reflect this * I have not yet packaged the newest version of xmonad. Hopefully I'll have this done before my trip :/ * Probably other stuff I just can't remember Anyways, please poke around if you have the time and pass along comments. -Yaakov

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[Fedora-haskell-list] [Bug 425882] Review Request: ghc-zlib - zlib bindings for ghc
by Red Hat Bugzilla 17 Feb '08

17 Feb '08

Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: Review Request: ghc-zlib - zlib bindings for ghc https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=425882 ------- Additional Comments From loupgaroublond(a)gmail.com 2008-02-17 18:36 EST ------- With much further ado, here is an updated version of the package. It should be closer to what the final spec is going to look like. SRPM: http://ynemoy.fedorapeople.org/review/ghc-zlib-0.4.0.2-2.fc8.src.rpm spec: http://ynemoy.fedorapeople.org/review/ghc-zlib.spec Reviewing it will probably have to work like this. This file is going to closely match the Haskell Packaging Guidelines draft. (in fact so closely, that the actual text of this spec file will be linked to it, as an example.) This package needs to be checked against the rest of the review processes and rules. If there are any conflicts between this and the review rules, we'll edit the draft to match something more correct. The same applies to other issues or problems. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

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[Fedora-haskell-list] Package guideline feedback
by Bryan O'Sullivan 15 Feb '08

15 Feb '08

Brief comments on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Haskell > There are three types of packages: Library only, Library and Binary, and Binary only. The program cabal-rpm can generate a SPEC file suited to all three cases. The following templates are the output from cabal-rpm with a few minor changes. Actually, there are really only two: library and binary. Mixing libraries and binaries is deprecated, and we shouldn't support it. > Naming > > I need some input here. I am also not sure how we want to name our packages in CVS. For libraries, ghc-foo and hugs98-foo and nhc-foo and so on. For binaries, the plain name, as for other Fedora packages. > Questions > > * Where should libraries go? > > Libraries are stored at /usr/lib/ghc which is a symlink to the current version. It's actually a regular directory with a subdirectory per version. > * Some libraries (like X11) that are included with GHC are not the newest version. Some packages like xmonad need a newer version. Do we break apart the GHC package into multiple libraries that other packages can also update from other sources? > > I would love to do this. I can't tell who's making these comments. If you're commenting directly in the wiki, could you include your initials or something, so we can tell who's saying what? I'm not thrilled with the idea of splitting up ghc and the extralibs, because it's a pain to have to install a dozen packages after ghc itself on systems that do the split, like Debian. If we can come up with some scheme that does the split, but gets the whole lot installed in one go, then fine. It's also perfectly reasonable, as far as GHC is concerned, to have multiple versions of a package installed at once. > * How do we handle Haddock data? Do we mandate haddock packages go in -doc? -haddock? should we enforce special build time requirements to make sure all haddock packages hyperlink to one another? (I'm new to this, how do we make that work) > > More research is needed here. This will not make it into Fedora 9 most likely. Haddock should pick up links across packages properly by default. > * Using cabal-rpm, -debuginfo packages come up empty. Is something supposed to go in them? > > This is show stopping for the review process. I need someone's input on why this is happening. debuginfo packages shouldn't even be built. GHC doesn't emit DWARF debug data. > -devel sub-package > > Do we need them? No. > Binaries are packaged by their simple name. xmonad would remain xmonad, as would xmobar. This does not apply to the libraries that are included in the cabal package. A spec file for xmonad would generate two rpms, both of which are required for runtime, xmonad and ghc-xmonad. xmonad would require ghc-xmonad, but not vica versa. ghc-xmonad would contain a line in the description explaining that these are the libraries necessary for xmonad to run. > > Rationale: binary packages tend to become popular on their name alone, and sometimes people may be looking for a program not caring that it is written in Haskell or Brainfuck. If a package containing a binary named xmobar is named xmobar, as upstream calles the entire thing xmobar, xmobar will be the easiest way for the user to find the package. More to the point, a built binary doesn't depend on the compiler it was built with, so there's no reason to include the compiler name. > Good Haskell libraries should be as generic and algorithmic as possible. It's possible that someone may want to use an algorithm provided by a library such that when the upstream provider releases the project as a cabal package generating both binaries and libraries, we would want to treat the library component the same as any other Haskell library for the sake of that user. I cannot understand these sentences. > Documentation > > I have to do a bit of research on making Haddock interact correctly with all the other included packages. The biggest challenge is making sure all packages are hyperlinked to each other correctly. This may require an expensive post package install relinking phase for every Haskell library. I would like to avoid this, so it will involve some research. It ought to simply work. <b

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[Fedora-haskell-list] ghc doesn't build under gcc43
by Jens-Ulrik Petersen 15 Feb '08

15 Feb '08

Yesterday I tried rebuilding ghc-6.8.2 for rawhide with gcc-4.3. It got all the way to the network libray before hitting: Socket.hsc: In function 'main': Socket.hsc:1144: error: invalid application of 'sizeof' to incomplete type 'struct ucred' Socket.hsc:1144: error: invalid application of 'sizeof' to incomplete type 'struct ucred' Socket.hsc:1144: error: invalid application of 'sizeof' to incomplete type 'struct ucred' Socket.hsc:1150: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct ucred' Socket.hsc:1151: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct ucred' Socket.hsc:1152: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct ucred' Socket.hsc:2419: error: 'NI_MAXHOST' undeclared (first use in this function) Socket.hsc:2419: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once Socket.hsc:2419: error: for each function it appears in.) Socket.hsc:2420: error: 'NI_MAXSERV' undeclared (first use in this function) compiling dist/build/Network/Socket_hsc_make.c failed The full buildlog is <http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=425959&name=build.log>. I sent a mail to glasgow-haskell-users asking if anyone else has tried already. Otherwise we need to fix it for f9. Jens

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[Fedora-haskell-list] [Bug 250767] RPMs for ghc-gtk2hs, ghc661-gtk2hs, won't install with 256 MB RAM
by Red Hat Bugzilla 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: RPMs for ghc-gtk2hs, ghc661-gtk2hs, won't install with 256 MB RAM https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=250767 bugzilla(a)redhat.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version|f7 |7 petersen(a)redhat.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |fedora-haskell- | |list(a)redhat.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

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[Fedora-haskell-list] welcome
by Jens-Ulrik Petersen 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

Hi, Welcome to the Fedora Haskell List of the Fedora Haskell SIG. I thought it would be useful to have a list for discussion related to haskell in Fedora and a forum for communication for our SIG. I have added this list to some of the current review bugs, but the idea is not to have this list flooded with bugzilla mails: if it gets too overwhelming perhaps we need to rethink that or even great a separate list for bugs. I guess the main initial focus should be agreeing on the packaging guidelines that Yaakov has started to draft and at the same starting to review some of the current submitted packages to test the draft. Jens

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[Fedora-haskell-list] [Bug 425882] Review Request: ghc-zlib - zlib bindings for ghc
by Red Hat Bugzilla 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: Review Request: ghc-zlib - zlib bindings for ghc https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=425882 petersen(a)redhat.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |fedora-haskell- | |list(a)redhat.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

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[Fedora-haskell-list] [Bug 426751] Review Request: ghc-X11 - A Haskell binding to the X11 graphics library.
by Red Hat Bugzilla 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: Review Request: ghc-X11 - A Haskell binding to the X11 graphics library. Alias: ghc-X11 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426751 petersen(a)redhat.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- OtherBugsDependingO| |426753 nThis| | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

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[Fedora-haskell-list] [Bug 426753] Review Request: xmonad - A tiling window manager
by Red Hat Bugzilla 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: Review Request: xmonad - A tiling window manager https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426753 petersen(a)redhat.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- BugsThisDependsOn| |426751 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

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[Fedora-haskell-list] [Bug 426751] Review Request: ghc-X11 - A Haskell binding to the X11 graphics library.
by Red Hat Bugzilla 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: Review Request: ghc-X11 - A Haskell binding to the X11 graphics library. Alias: ghc-X11 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426751 petersen(a)redhat.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alias| |ghc-X11 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

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