Haskell-ide-engine: Presence in Stackage

[varosi]

It'll be really nice if it's presented in LTS in Stackage:
https://www.stackage.org/

This will make installation even easier on major OSes without source download. Just:

stack install haskell-ide-engine

and Voila!

[alanz]

I agree

But there are a number of dependencies that are not yet on stackage, and I am waiting for them.

Most notably are cabal-helper and ghc-mod, which are still in the process of being updated for GHC 8.2.1 and Cabal 2.0, which brought some pretty big changes.

[varosi]

Great!

[alanz]

This is currently blocked by not having dependencies on stackage.

[l29ah]

Are you going to make a proper fork of ghc-mod, since the @DanielG is unable to keep up with the pull requests for a few years already?

[expipiplus1]

@alanz Are these dependencies also missing from Hackage?

[alanz]

The dependencies is what is keeping hie off hackage. I am hoping that by the end of GSOC this situation will be resolved this year.

[Ciantic]

@alanz just inquiring. Since you posted your comment before GSOC started. However now that I look at this year GSOC, I don't think any of the GSOC projects are related? So this effort is still largely waiting?

Edit Apparently I was looking at some outdated site ( https://summer.haskell.org/news/2019-02-26-accepted-for-gsoc.html )

It looks like there is a GSOC project here: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#6687588310581248

[poscat0x04]

Any updates on this?

[alanz]

@poscat0x04 We are not intending to put haskell-ide-engine on hackage.

This is mainly because it has been superseded by haskell-language-server, and publishing hie would set expectations that it would be maintained.

So we are going to ask people to be patient some more. Sorry.

[varosi]

Yes, understandable!

Thanks for all the effort on the project!