That brew commit checkout doesn't work either. Runs into permissions and 
$PATH issues (at least on my machine). 

On Tuesday, August 30, 2016 at 2:07:32 PM UTC-4, Janis Voigtländer wrote:
>
> Depends on the operating system. And should be answered at 
> https://www.haskell.org/downloads.
>
> For what seems to be your specific situation (OS X with Homebrew), the 
> commit discussion you linked to contains a comment that appears to answer 
> the question: 
> https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-platform/commit/f46c95cf826651c56cf11388148df4406a834ee8#commitcomment-18102434
> ​
>
> 2016-08-30 19:57 GMT+02:00 suttlecommakevin <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>>:
>
>> Right, and how does one obtain GHC 7.10? 
>>
>> On Tuesday, August 30, 2016 at 1:51:50 PM UTC-4, Janis Voigtländer wrote:
>>>
>>> GHC 7.10.x + whatever cabal comes with that + Elm 0.17.1
>>>
>>> 2016-08-30 19:44 GMT+02:00 suttlecommakevin <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>>> Thanks. I still am not able to contribute to elm-lang.org without a 
>>>> proper set up. 
>>>> In order to develop, how *exactly *should and which versions of, elm, 
>>>> ghc, and cabal be installed most reliably?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, August 30, 2016 at 1:39:07 PM UTC-4, Janis Voigtländer 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried 0.16, because that’s what’s in the README*. Others have been 
>>>>> scolded for not reading the instructions closely.
>>>>>
>>>>> In all fairness, the README of 
>>>>> https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-lang.org says to use 0.17, not 0.16.
>>>>> ​
>>>>>
>>>>> 2016-08-30 19:30 GMT+02:00 suttlecommakevin <[email protected]>:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    - Yes, 8.0.1 as Richard pointed out in that commit. 
>>>>>>    - I tried 0.16, because that's what's in the README*. Others have 
>>>>>>    been scolded for not reading the instructions closely.
>>>>>>    - Yes, I also tried 0.17.1, and that failed as well. 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For me, what is needed is a more explicit set of instructions than
>>>>>> > Before getting Haskell Platform, make sure it is going to give you 
>>>>>> these things <https://www.haskell.org/platform/contents.html>.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As someone who has never used Haskell, and is just getting going with 
>>>>>> Elm, I would rather see explicit, tested, instructions. 
>>>>>> *I tried to make a minor fix to these, but there are some odd errors 
>>>>>> in Travis. Maybe these will help shed some light. 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://travis-ci.org/elm-lang/elm-platform/jobs/156272879#L754-L794
>>>>>> https://travis-ci.org/elm-lang/elm-platform/jobs/156272879#L861
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tuesday, August 30, 2016 at 12:57:41 PM UTC-4, Janis Voigtländer 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>    - That does not yet tell me which version of GHC you have. I 
>>>>>>>    could guess that 8.0.1, but is that the case? 
>>>>>>>    - Why is it that you try to install 0.16 of the platform in your 
>>>>>>>    gist, rather than 0.17 or better yet 0.17.1? 
>>>>>>>    - It is not clear that GHC 8.0.1 will fail you (with 0.17.1 of 
>>>>>>>    elm-platform). Have you tried? 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ​
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2016-08-30 18:53 GMT+02:00 suttlecommakevin <[email protected]>:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm on Mac. I installed *ghc* via brew cask install 
>>>>>>>> haskell-platform. 
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It's not clear where or how to obtain GHC < 8.0.1 reliably or 
>>>>>>>> consistently. 
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-platform/commit/f46c95cf826651c56cf11388148df4406a834ee8
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Tuesday, August 30, 2016 at 12:49:38 PM UTC-4, Joey Eremondi 
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> @suttlecommakevin Are you trying to use Elm from Hackage, or the 
>>>>>>>>> Elm platform? Hackage elm is woefully out of date.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Janis Voigtländer <
>>>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> You don't feel like telling us which GHC version you are trying 
>>>>>>>>>> to do this with?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> 2016-08-30 18:11 GMT+02:00 suttlecommakevin <
>>>>>>>>>> [email protected]>:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I get missing deps, but because of conflicts that were rejected.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> https://gist.github.com/kevinSuttle/a867b0d2048f6f6c6f646964061ec3c1
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Thursday, August 14, 2014 at 11:19:13 PM UTC-4, Evan Cameron 
>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I've installed elm on arch using a cabal sandbox and the cabal 
>>>>>>>>>>>> install methods. I've added the /bin directory to my path so 
>>>>>>>>>>>> commands like 
>>>>>>>>>>>> elm-get run from everywhere.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I'm trying to build the elm-lang.org locally but cabal 
>>>>>>>>>>>> configure fails
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> ➜  elm-lang.org git:(stable) elm-get install
>>>>>>>>>>>> Installing all declared dependencies...
>>>>>>>>>>>> Cloning repo johnpmayer/elm-webgl
>>>>>>>>>>>> Checking out version 0.1
>>>>>>>>>>>> Cloning repo johnpmayer/elm-linear-algebra
>>>>>>>>>>>> Checking out version 1.0
>>>>>>>>>>>> Success!
>>>>>>>>>>>> ➜  elm-lang.org git:(stable) cabal configure
>>>>>>>>>>>> Resolving dependencies...
>>>>>>>>>>>> Configuring elm-website-0.1.0.2...
>>>>>>>>>>>> cabal: At least the following dependencies are missing:
>>>>>>>>>>>> Elm >=0.12,
>>>>>>>>>>>> HTTP -any,
>>>>>>>>>>>> aeson -any,
>>>>>>>>>>>> blaze-html -any,
>>>>>>>>>>>> blaze-markup -any,
>>>>>>>>>>>> cmdargs -any,
>>>>>>>>>>>> mtl -any,
>>>>>>>>>>>> snap-core -any,
>>>>>>>>>>>> snap-server -any,
>>>>>>>>>>>> unordered-containers -any
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> how is it even possible that elm-get ran if Elm is missing?
>>>>>>>>>>>>
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