richarch, you should *still* be able to use the ghc-for-osx bundle, just not launch the "help setup your path" app
eg, if you donwlaod the current release from https://ghcformacosx.github.io/ and add /Applications/ghc-7.8.4.app/Contents/bin/ to your path, you should be able to use the included ghc et al on any >= 10.7 system. a simple test would be to launch ghci as follows /Applications/ghc-7.8.4.app/Contents/bin/ghci ghc for osx USES the same GHC build that OS X haskell platform uses. that said, mark HAS been the general custodian of official OS X builds because he's been the only person who seems to be able to get docbook working properly on osx On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 9:55 PM, Richard Eisenberg <e...@cis.upenn.edu> wrote: > > On Mar 22, 2015, at 9:40 PM, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> wrote: > > That's interesting, because http://ghcformacosx.github.io is pretty much > the only thing anyone recommends to Mac users any more, and in #haskell > people seem to actively steer everyone away from the Platform in all its > incarnations. > > > I do indeed think that this is interesting, because this thread is the > first time I had ever heard of ghcformacosx. I've used Haskell on a Mac > daily for several years now. I subscribe to (and read at least subject > lines from) Haskell-cafe and Haskell mailing lists -- including Haskell > Weekly News and HCAR -- though I'm only occasionally on reddit and very > rarely look at #haskell. Besides, I run MacOS 10.8, and so ghcformacosx > doesn't help me, anyway. (I installed 10.9 once upon a time. It slowed down > my machine so much I preferred to reformat and roll back to 10.8, even > though I was facing down a nasty deadline.) > > At the least, this end of the debate shows me that the community has some > disagreement about what today's status quo is, an important fact to settle > on before charting a course for the future. > > Richard > > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > >
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