I'm sure we could do better at publicity, but your email made me wonder, so the first thing I tried was a search on haskell-café that brings up several threads with relevant subjects that mention ghcformacosx, including an HWN. http://search.gmane.org/search.php?group=gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe&query=ghcformacosx
I believe that you haven't heard of it, but, if somebody asks about GHC on OS X, the advice is pretty consistent. It is pretty well the single-step, OS X-focused installer people ask for. All that's missing is more unified branding across different operating systems. Anthony On Sunday, March 22, 2015, Richard Eisenberg <e...@cis.upenn.edu> wrote: > > On Mar 22, 2015, at 9:40 PM, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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 >
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