[Bug 189197] Review Request: ghc-gtk2hs

[bugzilla at redhat.com]

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-gtk2hs


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189197





------- Additional Comments From petersen at redhat.com  2006-05-04 00:00 EST -------
(In reply to comment #8)
> I find it a little annoying that the doc directories are:
> ghc642-gtk-0.9.10
> ghc-gtk2hs-doc-0.9.10
> More consistent would be:
> ghc-gtk2hs-0.9.10
> ghc-gtk2hs-doc-0.9.10

[Hmm, the situation with ghc is actually similar: html under ghc-6.4.2/
and doc files in ghc642-6.4.2/.]

I might be more tempted to just put all the doc files under ghc-gtk2hs-0.9.10/
irrespective of the subpackage they are in (or even gtk2hs-0.9.10/: see below).

The reason those doc files are in ghc642-gtk is more of a historical artefact:
ghc642-gtk used to be the main ghc642-gtk2hs package and then there were other
subpackages like ghc642-gtk2hs-gconf etc.  I moved ChangeLog and TODO to the -doc
subpackage for now anyway, and AUTHORS and COPYING.LIB to -glib.

> This would mean, that the doc files would go in the ghc-gtk2hs-0.9.10
> package which is currently. Is is possible however to install the
> subpackages without the main package. Probably one could make
> the package ghc642-gtk require ghc-gtk2hs, so that ghc-gtk2hs is always
> installed.

Hmm, but that then introduces a circular dependency which I think is frowned
upon in Fedora packaging circles.


I noticed that ChangeLog file is quite big btw: perhaps it should be gzip'ed or
just not included?


My only concern now with the current package naming (ghc-gtk2hs) is: what happens
if/when one day we want to build/package gtk2hs with another Haskell compiler or
interpreter (say nhc98, jhc or hugs)?  In that sense using a more generic
name for the source package (eg just gtk2hs) might be better after all?
(We can still have a ghc-gtk2hs subpackage of course even in this case.)

-- 
Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact.