On 14-02-08 01:33 PM, harry wrote:
Who actually are "most users" for the bindist? Debian & derivatives have the latest GHC in the package repository
No. The other pasture is not greener. The distro you don't use is not more up to date. Chinese proverb: all crows in the whole world are equally black.
Debian and derivatives almost always have the wrong version. Wrong version means:
* Lagging behind Haskell Platform. And Haskell Platform is already very conservative and has its own wait-and-see period.
* If one version has a serious bug, then long after the bugfix version is released, Debian and derivatives still cling on to the bug. Here is a historical example: 6.12.1 had a serious bug, fixed in 6 months. Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 both provided 6.12.1, this means 12 months of living with the bug for you. (10.04's case was justifiable, 10.10's was inexcusable.)
http://www.vex.net/~trebla/haskell/sicp.xhtml#ghc6121 I use the bindist. _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
