On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 01:46, Don Stewart wrote:
leather:
2. What is the difference between Haskell and the Haskell Platform? I
see
one or the other in various places. To get from www.haskell.org to
downloading
the Mac software, I go through Download Haskell, Get the Haskell
Platform
Sean Leather leat...@cs.uu.nl writes:
Personally, I prefer to separate the name of the language from the name of
the development tools, because I think that causes unnecessary confusion.
End-users do not need to care about Haskell, unlike Java since they need the
JRE, so potential developers
leather:
2. What is the difference between Haskell and the Haskell Platform? I see
one or the other in various places. To get from www.haskell.org to downloading
the Mac software, I go through Download Haskell, Get the Haskell Platform
Mac, and Download Haskell for Mac OS X (intel).
Well,
Daniel Fischer daniel.is.fisc...@web.de writes:
However, I wanted to know what the etc stood for, with taking care of
dependencies and uninstalling already mentioned. Upgrading, yes, but what
else?
Keeping the system consistent with other systems? If I use the system
packages, I can have a
On 8 April 2010 16:29, Ketil Malde ke...@malde.org wrote:
Support, in the sense that somebody is actually responsible for the
package? (Unlike Hackage, where some packages have a
closed-for-nonsubscribers mailing list as 'maintainer'.)
Which packages are these? I don't recall seeing any with
On Apr 8, 2010, at 02:47 , Ivan Miljenovic wrote:
On 8 April 2010 16:29, Ketil Malde ke...@malde.org wrote:
Support, in the sense that somebody is actually responsible for the
package? (Unlike Hackage, where some packages have a
closed-for-nonsubscribers mailing list as 'maintainer'.)
Which
Ivan Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com writes:
Which packages are these? I don't recall seeing any with this kind of
maintainer address...
http://www.google.no/search?q=site%3Ahackage.haskell.org+maintainer+libraries%40haskell.org
-k
--
If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in
Jason Dagit da...@codersbase.com writes:
If I understand correctly, the issue at hand is that the uninstaller
step is removing previous libraries and ghc?
Not GHC; the HP installer removes old copies of the platform
libraries. That's likely to break your old GHC setup though. What should
it do
greg:
Jason Dagit da...@codersbase.com writes:
If I understand correctly, the issue at hand is that the uninstaller
step is removing previous libraries and ghc?
Not GHC; the HP installer removes old copies of the platform
libraries. That's likely to break your old GHC setup though. What
The platform installer is supposed to erase previous platform
editions before it installs itself.
I would consider that a serious bug.
The Haskell Platform is not like a standard user application, where it
would be reasonable to have only one version installed at a time. If
you are
Malcolm Wallace malcolm.wall...@cs.york.ac.uk writes:
The platform installer is supposed to erase previous platform
editions before it installs itself.
I would consider that a serious bug.
Lacking a feature I would consider essential /= a bug in my opinion,
especially when the
Malcolm Wallace malcolm.wall...@cs.york.ac.uk writes:
The Haskell Platform is not like a standard user application, where it
would be reasonable to have only one version installed at a time.
As far as I know, most Linux distributions only let you install one
version of GHC at a time; we do this
Am Mittwoch 07 April 2010 23:43:05 schrieb Ivan Lazar Miljenovic:
Malcolm Wallace malcolm.wall...@cs.york.ac.uk writes:
The Haskell Platform is not like a standard user application, where it
would be reasonable to have only one version installed at a time.
As far as I know, most Linux
The platform installer is supposed to erase previous platform
editions before it installs itself.
I would consider that a serious bug.
Lacking a feature I would consider essential /= a bug in my
opinion,
especially when the desirability of the feature is in question.
It is not merely
Daniel Fischer daniel.is.fisc...@web.de writes:
I currently have 6.10.1, 6.10.3 and 6.12.1 installed (openSuSe 11.1), no
problem.
On my previous computer (SuSE 8.2), I had every release from 6.2.2 to
6.8.2, no problem either.
Using system packages?
Ah, but one shouldn't use a package
Am Donnerstag 08 April 2010 00:09:34 schrieb Ivan Lazar Miljenovic:
Daniel Fischer daniel.is.fisc...@web.de writes:
I currently have 6.10.1, 6.10.3 and 6.12.1 installed (openSuSe 11.1),
no problem.
On my previous computer (SuSE 8.2), I had every release from 6.2.2 to
6.8.2, no problem
Malcolm Wallace malcolm.wall...@cs.york.ac.uk writes:
The platform installer is supposed to erase previous platform
editions before it installs itself.
I would consider that a serious bug.
Lacking a feature I would consider essential /= a bug in my opinion,
especially when the
On 8 April 2010 08:25, Daniel Fischer daniel.is.fisc...@web.de wrote:
Am Donnerstag 08 April 2010 00:09:34 schrieb Ivan Lazar Miljenovic:
etc. ...
Such as?
To avoid stating these all over again:
http://ivanmiljenovic.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/repeat-after-me-cabal-is-not-a-package-manager/
Am Donnerstag 08 April 2010 01:47:19 schrieb Ivan Miljenovic:
On 8 April 2010 08:25, Daniel Fischer daniel.is.fisc...@web.de wrote:
Am Donnerstag 08 April 2010 00:09:34 schrieb Ivan Lazar Miljenovic:
etc. ...
Such as?
To avoid stating these all over again:
On 8 April 2010 10:41, Daniel Fischer daniel.is.fisc...@web.de wrote:
However, I wanted to know what the etc stood for, with taking care of
dependencies and uninstalling already mentioned. Upgrading, yes, but what
else?
Patching, bug fixing, stuff like that.
--
Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Malcolm Wallace
malcolm.wall...@cs.york.ac.uk wrote:
The platform installer is supposed to erase previous platform
editions before it installs itself.
I would consider that a serious bug.
Lacking a feature I would consider essential /= a bug in my
1. Why can't the platform download site be hosted on www.haskell.org instead
of hackage.haskell.org? I see that there's a redirect, but (imho) it would
be ideal to have www.haskell.org/platform be the standard URL in my browser.
It is easier to remember (for typing) and more obvious (for
leather:
1. Why can't the platform download site be hosted on www.haskell.org instead
of
hackage.haskell.org? I see that there's a redirect, but (imho) it would be
ideal to have www.haskell.org/platform be the standard URL in my browser. It
is
easier to remember (for typing) and more
Sean Leather leat...@cs.uu.nl writes:
4. The current link for the Mac image points to
http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/2010.1.0.0/haskell-platform-2010.1.0.1-i386.dmg
. Note the inconsistency between the version in the directory and file
names.
You can think of that one as the second
Hi Gregory,
Thanks for the reply.
Gregory Collins wrote:
Sean Leather writes:
4. The current link for the Mac image points to
http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/2010.1.0.0/haskell-platform-2010.1.0.1-i386.dmg
. Note the inconsistency between the version in the directory and file
Sean Leather leat...@cs.uu.nl writes:
Too bad the installer
still doesn't work -- I'm working on it everyone, but the Mac installer
system is incredibly crufty and broken, and Snow Leopard broke a lot of
stuff for me.
Is it possible to build the installer on a Leopard
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