Make installable trough elpa

[tibbe]

It seems to me that elpa is the new way to install emacs packages. We should get some version of this package in there.

[hvr]

fyi, it has been available on MELPA for a while already...

[bbatsov]

@tibbe For various reasons (copyright, maintenance, etc) it's not practical to submit packages to the official ELPA repository. Since haskell-mode is available on both Marmalade and MELPA I'd rather install it from one those community repos.

@chrisdone I guess this issue can be safely closed.

[tibbe]

Are the docs in obvious places (e.g. README) that explain how to install from MELPA? My original reason for bringing this up is I don't think we have a place to host released versions anywhere and asking everyone to use HEAD is a bit hardcore.

[chrisdone]

It's possible to release versions on Github, if you want to do that (see downloads). The ELPA approach is good. But I expect there are those who don't want to/can't be bothered using it (yet).

[chrisdone]

I see that in the past tags were used for versions for tracking purposes. That's a practice I do on other projects. I'll bump the tag to current head, which we can consider the latest release and iterate to a state of stability from there. The latest is 2_8_0. I think it's right to bump up to 2_9_0.

[chrisdone]

Oh. I just noticed that the tags actually creates a .zip download on that page: https://github.com/faylang/fay/tags

Problem solved. I'll create the 2_9_0 tag and push it.

[chrisdone]

There we go, I cleaned it up, we can use this: https://github.com/haskell/haskell-mode/tags 2.9.0 is now the current “release”. Too many changes have been made than I care to spend time accounting for, but for future ones I don't mind documenting the changes.

[bbatsov]

@tibbe I've opened a PR (#98), that adds installation instructions for MELPA, Marmalade & el-get.

[chrisdone]

Related: #145. I'm establishing a monthly release cycle so those who want to push to the package systems can follow that.

[chrisdone]

If someone wants to own this issue, assign it to yourself and give it prio. I don't care that much about it.

[hvr]

We have a make {elpa,package} target which creates an ELPA compatible Elisp package tarball according to http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Packaging.html

And we have working packages published:

• MELPA: https://github.com/milkypostman/melpa/blob/master/recipes/haskell-mode
• Marmalade: http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/haskell-mode

The README.md has been updated to include new installation instructions.

So I regard this issue resolved as far as it's possible in the forseable future.