Re: shelltestrunner dependency on FileManipCompat
[re-adding debian-haskell@, to let people know]
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 01:29:53PM -0800, Simon Michael wrote:
> Iustin,
>
> great! I saw your post on the debian-haskell list. Thanks for working on
> this.
>
> I looked at filemanip/FileManip/FileManipCompat this morning. I think
> FileManipCompat was a windows-compatible fork of (part of) FileManip,
> but filemanip now supersedes both and shelltestrunner should just use
> that. Hopefully it's an easy switch, would you care to take a crack at
> it ?
Oh, if it wasn't an explicit need for FileManipCompat, sure, I'd love
to.
(Side-note: maybe the FileManipCompat author should point this out on
the hackage page… I'll send a note if I don't forget)
Thanks for the quick response!
iustin
> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012, at 08:28 PM, Iustin Pop wrote:
> > Hi Simon,
> >
> > I would be interested to package shelltestrunner in debian, as part of
> > the Debian Haskell group (CCed), but it has a dependency on
> > FileManipCompat which is not yet packaged in Debian.
> >
> > Now looking at Hackage I don't understand the difference between
> > filemanip (in Debian already) and FileManipCompat. Could you shed some
> > light here?
> >
> > Since nothing else required so far FileManipCompat, ideally we wouldn't
> > package it, since it seems at first sight to do the same as filemanip.
> > Would it be possible to make shelltestrunner work with both?
> >
> > thanks in advance,
> > iustin
> >
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