I can confirm that, although before Ubuntu Feisty came out I just compiled GHC 6.6 myself. I was surprised how easy it was -- I had heard building GHC was hard, but I guess that's only if you don't already have a Haskell compiler. I expect I'll probably be compiling the newest version myself again once the features I'm missing out on become important enough to me.
--Grady Lemoine On 4/22/07, Ryan Dickie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm running feisty. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ghc --version The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.6 --ryan On 4/22/07, Dougal Stanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 22/04/07, Ryan Dickie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Many of the haskell packages including darcs, ghc, and well over 100 other > > packages (mostly libraries) are in the package manager ready to be > > installed. > > The problem with Ubuntu (at least until the Feisty release a few days > ago?) was that GHC wasn't up-to-date by default; it came with 6.4. > Moving to 6.6 isn't a difficult feat (the generic binaries from the > GHC site seem to work fine for Edgy, if you install libreadline too) > but being behind that curve is noticeable. If you want to stay on the > cutting edge Gentoo takes a lot of the hassle out of it, since you can > use the repository stored on haskell.org. The downside is having to > keep the rest of the system updated if you've got a slow machine. > > You pays your money, etc. > > D. > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
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