Am Donnerstag, 13. September 2012, 14:44:09 schrieb Peter Trommler:

I would like to introduce Haskell to Factory.

Some reasons to have Haskell in openSUSE: Most other major distributions have it: http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/linux.html openSUSE is only to be found under "Information for other systems"

Haskell is required by several applications that users have asked for:

* Version control system darcs: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-packaging/2012-07/msg00132.html

* Pandoc markdown processor: https://features.opensuse.org/312777

I have already built xmonad (a tiling display manager) in my home repo and will submit it to devel:languages:haskell soon until I have defined a useful default session. Currently the games repo links to many of our packages, too, because the hedgewars server is built with ghc, too.

I could offer to maintain the Haskell compiler ghc, all packages required to support Haskell Platform (a standard set of additional libraries), RPM macros to make packaging easier (based on Fedora's), and perhaps pandoc and additional libraries required by pandoc.

I help with maintaining the haskell packages, too. In fact I started the devel:languages:haskell repo and before that on Packman, but Peter has far more knowlege than me.

All packages and a few more can be found in project devel:languages:haskell.

I would like to ask the OBS maintainers to make devel:languages:haskell a new devel project. I think going through devel:languages:misc would clutter up that project.

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