tidal 1.8.1 on hackage doesn't have an executable

[felixonmars]

The whole executable tidal section is missing from tidal-1.8.1 on hackage, and this change doesn't seem to be in this repository.

[dvzrv]

For context: We are packaging this project for Arch Linux and the hackage release being broken means that tidal on Arch Linux is broken currently.

[dvzrv]

Also, 1.8.1 is not reflected as a tag/release in this repository. Please add it and create a new release that has the executable

[yaxu]

Hi, this stems from the latest ghc release not yet supporting hint, and therefore the executable not building on that platform, which was breaking the windows choco install. As the executable is currently a pretty useless work-in-progress, and I was on holiday I made a quick fix of an interim hackage release without that executable.

I've just got back home, so can look into this properly now.. Is there a particular reason why the executable required under arch?

[yaxu]

I'm going to do a release or two this week and will tidy this stuff up, but could you please clarify if/why you need an executable in the cabal file? @dvzrv

[dvzrv]

I'm going to do a release or two this week and will tidy this stuff up, but could you please clarify if/why you need an executable in the cabal file? @dvzrv

Sorry, forgot about this ticket!

Hm, not sure if we really need the executable. I was under the impression, that it is a new default thing that you are offering cross-platform to start tidal. If that is not the case, I don't mind if it is not there of course!

[yaxu]

Great, thanks for clarifying that! Yep that's the plan with the executable but not quite there yet

[yaxu]

@dvzrv v1.9.0 is up now, please lmk if you spot issues with it

[yaxu]

@felixonmars @dvzrv please note that tidal now requires g++ to build, due to the ableton link library being a c++ thing

[felixonmars]

Thanks. We have added tidal-link as a separate package and it depends on gcc-libs on runtime. Everything looks good so far.

[yaxu]

@felixonmars super. Could the install instructions be improved for arch or is all the needed info there? https://github.com/tidalcycles/tidal-doc/blob/main/docs/getting-started/linux_install.md

[felixonmars]

Actually pacman, the default system package manager, should work directly. But since the linked blog uses yay, keeping it should not be a big issue either.

[dvzrv]

That being said: yay is unsupported and should not be encouraged, as it implies people will have to deal with the AUR (which contains user-provided build scripts, but no prebuilt packages).

Using

pacman -S haskell-tidal

should do mostly what people want. If users also want the sc3-plugins they can use

pacman -S sc3-plugins

The package is also listed as an optional dependency of haskell-tidal though.