Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Haskell Platform Versions Comparison Chart

2012-03-21 Thread Simon Hengel
Hi Joachim, Regarding information about Debian sid, I'd like to understand the exact use case. Can you elaborate on that? one use case is developers who use distro packages and want to tell others against what version of the platform they develop their code against. I'll not add that

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Haskell Platform Versions Comparison Chart

2012-03-20 Thread Simon Hengel
Do you see a way that you could incorporate distribution information? I thought it would be nice to have a second table that correlates Platform versions with distro releases, because I think this is relevant to package authors. Regarding information about Debian sid, I'd like to understand the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Haskell Platform Versions Comparison Chart

2012-03-20 Thread Sergey Khorev
I compiled a chart that gives a side-by-side comparison of package versions in various Haskell Platform releases. Nice stuff but I cannot see alex or happy there. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Haskell Platform Versions Comparison Chart

2012-03-20 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Dienstag, den 20.03.2012, 18:40 +0100 schrieb Simon Hengel: Do you see a way that you could incorporate distribution information? I thought it would be nice to have a second table that correlates Platform versions with distro releases, because I think this is relevant to package

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Haskell Platform Versions Comparison Chart

2012-03-19 Thread Simon Hengel
This includes both, packages that come with ghc and platform packages. Source is on GitHub[1]. Nice. Any chance you could get the packages sorted alphabetically so that it's easier to look things up directly? Sure, now they are sorted alphabetically (case-insensitive). Before it was more

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Haskell Platform Versions Comparison Chart

2012-03-19 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Sonntag, den 18.03.2012, 10:08 +0100 schrieb Simon Hengel: I compiled a chart that gives a side-by-side comparison of package versions in various Haskell Platform releases. http://sol.github.com/haskell-platform-versions-comparison-chart/ This includes both, packages that come

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: Haskell Platform Versions Comparison Chart

2012-03-18 Thread Simon Hengel
Hi, I compiled a chart that gives a side-by-side comparison of package versions in various Haskell Platform releases. http://sol.github.com/haskell-platform-versions-comparison-chart/ This includes both, packages that come with ghc and platform packages. Source is on GitHub[1]. Cheers,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Haskell Platform Versions Comparison Chart

2012-03-18 Thread Sönke Hahn
That's great! I think, it would be useful to include the version of the shipped gcc (where applicable). Would that be complicated to add? For windows, I looked them up once: 2011.4.0.0 - 4.5.0 2011.2.0.1 - 4.5.0 2011.2.0.0 - 4.5.0 2010.2.0.0 - 3.4.5 Cheers, Sönke Simon

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Haskell Platform Versions Comparison Chart

2012-03-18 Thread Simon Hengel
That's great! I think, it would be useful to include the version of the shipped gcc (where applicable). I think this only applies to windows**; and I'd tend to put it into a separate table. But yes, open a ticket or send me a pull request (preferred!). Cheers, Simon ** Not really suer

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Haskell Platform Versions Comparison Chart

2012-03-18 Thread Erik Hesselink
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 20:28, Simon Hengel s...@typeful.net wrote: **  Not really suer about Mac OS X, but I think it requires Xcode, can    someone confirm this. Yes, the platform on Mac OS X requires Xcode, which includes gcc. Erik ___

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Haskell Platform Versions Comparison Chart

2012-03-18 Thread Simon Hengel
**  Not really suer about Mac OS X, but I think it requires Xcode, can    someone confirm this. Yes, the platform on Mac OS X requires Xcode, which includes gcc. Thanks. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Haskell Platform Versions Comparison Chart

2012-03-18 Thread wren ng thornton
On 3/18/12 5:08 AM, Simon Hengel wrote: Hi, I compiled a chart that gives a side-by-side comparison of package versions in various Haskell Platform releases. http://sol.github.com/haskell-platform-versions-comparison-chart/ This includes both, packages that come with ghc and platform