Re: Congrats to Mandrake

2002-02-20 Thread Ketil Z. Malde
Ashley Yakeley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 2002-02-19 14:13, Duncan Coutts wrote: So what I mean is, can we have links to more binaries than just Red Hat? Debian, Mandrake, FreeBSD. (I know these's SuSE) Seconded. I'm not sure what the point would be, if they are in the distributions

RE: Congrats to Mandrake

2002-02-20 Thread Simon Marlow
Jim Farrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: both hugs and ghc in their Linux distro *as standard*. This could significantly help Haskell takeup amongst the unwashed masses. :-) Well, same applies for FreeBSD. And Debian. So what I mean is, can we have links to more binaries than

Re: Congrats to Mandrake

2002-02-20 Thread Albert Lai
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ketil Z. Malde) writes: I'm not sure what the point would be, if they are in the distributions anyway? Isn't it better to install them by apt-get or up2date or whatever? (In fact, I had almost thought manually downloading packages a thing of the past, but then the IT

Re: Congrats to Mandrake

2002-02-20 Thread Dylan Thurston
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 03:45:15PM +0200, Lauri Alanko wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 01:37:52PM -, Simon Marlow wrote: Could someone who is Debian-compliant tell me where I should be pointing for Debian packages? http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/ghc5/ Though of course any

Congrats to Mandrake

2002-02-19 Thread Duncan Coutts
All, I think that Mandrake deserve thanks for (reasonably) consistently including both hugs and ghc in their Linux distro *as standard*. This could significantly help Haskell takeup amongst the unwashed masses. :-) There should probably be a link on the ghc download page to the mdk binaries.

Re: Congrats to Mandrake

2002-02-19 Thread Duncan Coutts
Jim Farrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: both hugs and ghc in their Linux distro *as standard*. This could significantly help Haskell takeup amongst the unwashed masses. :-) Well, same applies for FreeBSD. And Debian. So what I mean is, can we have links to more binaries than just Red Hat?

Re: Congrats to Mandrake

2002-02-19 Thread Jens Petersen
Duncan Coutts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think that Mandrake deserve thanks for (reasonably) consistently including both hugs and ghc in their Linux distro *as standard*. While all praise goes to Mandrake (and pixel in particular) for distributing hugs and ghc, I would just like to point