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

[Dmitry Marakasov]

* Gabor PALI (pgj at FreeBSD.org) wrote:

> > That is great - I've played with haskell ports a bit when I was
> > porting raincat game ([1]) and had to do hs-sdl, hs-sdl_mixer and
> > hs-sdl_image ports (can be found at [2]) as well
> 
> I can take a look at them if you want :)

Feel free to.

Oh, btw that reminded me of one thing - could you consider using a
specific DIST_SUBDIR for Haskell ports by default? The thing is that
haskell modules' tarballs have pretty generic names (X11-1.5.0.0.tar.gz
for example) so I though it'd be useful to have them in a separate
subdir to ease search, maintainance and prevent collisions. I guess the
same thing for Perl modules would be nice too.

> > I believe that end-user ports should be named in such a way thay users
> 
> I think users of those ports are mostly aware of Cabal and its nature.
>  The mentioned ports are also more or less "Haskellish": xmonad can be
> configure via writing Haskell code, pandoc works a similar style as
> Haskell sources by using the off-side rule, darcs is built upon
> "theory of patches".  They assume some awareness of Haskell.

Maybe, but that really shouldn't affect naming. For example, I happen to
have checked out working copy of darcs repo for pushover (.sf.net)
game. However I don't know any theory behind darcs, and also I'd imagine
how confused I will be to not find devel/darcs port where it should be
along with other VCSs, without any prefixes.

> In that sense Agda, alex, happy, c2hs, cpphs, haddock, hmake, hoogle,
> hscolour, HaXml, uuagc should be also used without prefixes since they
> are "standalone" applications.

Probably.

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