[petsc-dev] Sean is going to love this

[Sean Farley]

Jed Brown writes:

> Geoff Oxberry <goxberry at gmail.com> writes:
>> I also agree that mixing package managers is a mess. I still prefer it to
>> manual installation in most cases. A single package manager solution would
>> be best, but I have yet to see one effectively incorporate existing
>> language-specific package ecosystems.
>
> Haskell's package manager (Cabal) has an API.  Arch Linux's Haskell
> packages are created automatically using that API, with any compliance
> violations flagged for a person to check.  This way hundreds of packages
> are automatically kept up-to-date without asking Arch users to mix
> package managers.

Is this ArchHaskell? It doesn't seem clear to me which method uses the
API from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/haskell.

Does Arch do this for python, too? Python distutil / setuptools /
whatever seems like a headache every time I touch it. And somehow,
ruby is still worse.