Hi, [email protected] wrote:
> Currently debian stable installs ghc 6.12.1. Is there any reason you're not using say Debian testing? The Debian Haskell Group (of which I am one of the less active members) is doing a magnificent job in bringing Haskell packages to Debian in the form of proper Debian packages. Debian testing already has ghc-7.0.3 and a huge bunch of libraries. > I'd like to use the latest version of repa which is built > on ghc 7.0, and my attempts to placate cabal's complaints > about the installation of various packages isn't going anywhere. If you are willing to give up Debian packages for all Haskell related stuff you can install the haskell platform from a binary tarball and then use cabal to manage the various Haskell packages. > It's not obvious to me that there's an advantage to using > debian for ghc Personally, I consider Debian stable really only for critical production servers and low maintenance desktop systems. For a developer, Debian testing or Debian unstable (which is really much more stable than the name suggests) is a better option. Finally, there is the option of pulling Debian source packages from Debian unstable, building them and loading them into your own private repository. I have done that for instance to get ghc-6.12.3 onto a bunch of Ubuntu 8.04 systems. If you are familiar with the Debian packaging system and running a repository, this can work quite well. HTH, Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
