-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/16/10 12:07 , Ketil Malde wrote: > Brandon S Allbery KF8NH <[email protected]> writes: > >>> Linux users don't have easy binary installers, usually. What can we do >>> about this bootstrapping problem? > >> I thought the answer to that was supposed to be "bug your distribution to >> package the Platform". > > In my case, it's more like bug the IT department to get with the times > and drop distributions like RHEL and CentOS. And I do try, but to my > perpetual chagrin, I'm not always as high on their priority list as I > might wish...
There is that, isn't there? And, as one of aforementioned IT department folks (admittedly in a different context) it's not always as high on our priority lists as we might wish, and — worse — we may have our hands tied by someone even higher in the food chain. (I'm going to have to drop gtk2hs here because recent versions are incompatible with the glib (gtk+, oddly, is fine) we have installed on about a third of the machines in the department, and we're *already* failing to get those upgraded to something halfway modern....) - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [email protected] system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] [email protected] electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAky54lcACgkQIn7hlCsL25WifgCgi/sMjBuqXm8jOIcpKnuCIVde meQAoNbbpu2hfAedLqRHmLEZuN66zuN6 =pgJg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
