Latest haskell-mode on Marmelade is v2.8.0

[scvalex]

The haskell-mode on Marmelade is v2.8.0. A more up-to-date version would be great.

[ivan-m]

I think melpa has git snapshots of the repository.

[scvalex]

Yes, but the readme says that you can also install from Marmalade, and that version is 3 years out of date.

haskell-mode is available on both Marmalade and MELPA community maintained repos.

[Whoops]

Personally I'm hesitant to use MELPA since Emacs doesn't provide a good method of specifying which repo a package comes from, and MELPA often contains pre-release builds.

[gregorycollins]

I'm tempted to just remove the mention of marmalade and MELPA from the readme file. Obviously, whoever put that in there isn't maintaining it.

[scvalex]

@gregorycollins That doesn't sound like a bad idea. A warning like the following would be nice, though:

Warning: The haskell-mode packages on the community Emacs repos sometimes have out-of-date or experimental versions. Use at your own risk.

I lost a bit of time last week trying to figure out why haskell-mode wasn't inheriting prog-mode (because I was using marmalade, and 2.8 came out before prog-mode existed). A warning like the above would have tipped me off and saved me the trouble of cloning the git repo and trying to find the "bug".

[ivan-m]

The version on MELPA is github snapshots though... so unless you're wanting something that just came out a day or so ago I don't think there's an issue with using it.

(I stopped bothering having a git repo of haskell-mode that I kept updating and instead just rely on MELPA to update it for me... now I just have to figure out how emacs packages work as the MELPA package doesn't include the .svg file for notifications :/)

[scvalex]

@ivan-m I just opened a pull request on MELPA to include logo.svg in the package.

[milkypostman]

@Whoops using the melpa package you can either whitelist or blacklist packages from the MELPA repo so only certain packages are installed from the MELPA repo.

Thanks for the pulls request!

[Whoops]

Did not know that, thanks I'll use that then.

[chrisdone]

See #145 for future releases. On June 1st a new release tag will be made, and each month after that. Anyone who wants to maintain one of these package systems can follow that release cycle.

[hvr]

Fwiw, I plan to upload 13.6 to Marmalade once it's released (not least because GitHub has discontinued /downloads and thus Marmalade is an easy way to provide file hosting for a distribution tarball)

[scvalex]

@hvr Thank you!

[hvr]

Uploaded as http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/haskell-mode-13.6.tar

[chrisdone]

Cool!