On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 04:56:18PM -0700, Evan Laforge wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Ian Lynagh <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:55:51AM -0700, Evan Laforge wrote: > >> There are some issues with the .pkg installer under OS X: > >> > >> Installers shouldn't be deleting the old version! > > > > This has been a long-standing bug of the OS X installer. We'd love a fix > > from an OS X installer expert! The framework-pkg target in > > distrib/MacOS/Makefile is how we build the installer. > > > >> solution for this is to have /usr/bin/ghc-a.b.c point to > >> .../GHC.framework/Versions/abc/... instead of > >> ../GHC.framework/Versions/Current/... > > > > Yes, that would make sense, if we could install multiple versions > > simultaneously. > > I'm far from an OS X installer expert, but after some puttering and > trial and error I came up with a patch that seems to work.
Great, thanks! > I created > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4354 and attached the > patch. We now have a mixture of org.haskell.ghc and org.haskell.GHC Is that deliberate, or should I lowercase them all? > The main question is whether or not I can kill Uninstaller, as it's > even more broken now than it was before. If yes, I'll attach another > patch that removes it. I'd prefer to fix it, if possible. Is there anything magic about the name, or could we have Uninstaller-7.0.1 etc? Thanks Ian _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
