On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 04:54:43PM +1000, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote: > > You may be aware that from OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) forward the default > security policy will disallow the installation of unsigned packages
I wasn't. Thanks for the heads-up. > So, I was wondering, are you planning to sign the GHC and HP installers? Actually, I had been meaning to talk to Mark about installers anyway. Mark, am I right in thinking that for the HP you don't use the OS X GHC installer at all, but just build your own for GHC plus the other HP bits? And do you know whether the same is true for the Windows installer? We have been considering stopping building the installers. We have scripts that build the installers, but we aren't working on improving them at all, which means that any feature requests don't get any attention. However, we still have to spend time maintaining them (e.g. fixing the above signing issue), and building them for releases. However, the GHC releases are no longer aimed at the general end user; we'd expect them to install the HP instead. Early adopters would still be able to install GHC using the bindists, which is pretty easy - and in fact it's easier to have multiple versions installed if you do it that way. Thanks Ian _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc
