Quoth Chris Smith <cdsm...@gmail.com>, > That's interesting... whatever the reason, though, I concur that using > Haskell seems much easier on Linux and Windows. I had to abandon a plan > to introduce Haskell in a class I taught this past semester because of > issues with getting it installed on the Macintosh laptops that some of > the students had. It's very unfortunate that Haskell on Mac requires > software which can neither be bundled in the install kit nor downloaded > freely from elsewhere. > > The part of this that is actually needed is the GCC build system, right? > Can't that be bundled on its own in a freely downloadable location? > > Spoken as a non Mac user...
Exactly. If you don't use MacOS, let alone develop on it, I guess it's possible that this looks like an formidable obstacle, but then wouldn't that pose some limits to how much you're going to be able to enjoy GHC anyway? I might be missing something here, since I have never really gotten into the Darwin ports thing, but it seems to me like the "real" issues confronting Haskell developers on MacOS have to do with access to the Cocoa etc. APIs, and in view of that it seems possibly sort of suicidal to provide an install option that more or less guarantees that no solution to that problem will work (because the free gcc package won't include Cocoa.) Donn _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe