Hi all, After months of intense frustration I have something approaching a reasonable OSX installer for the Haskell Platform. I'd appreciate it if some OSX hackers could try it out.
The installer can be downloaded from: http://gregorycollins.net/static/haskell/haskell-platform-2009.2.0.1-alpha1.pkg Please do me a favour and don't link there from the haskell platform website :) Features/caveats: * it presupposes GHC-6.10.3 is installed from the binary distro. The final release will bundle the two together in a .dmg file. * it installs the platform libraries and executables to /Library/Framework/HaskellPlatform.framework, registers the libraries with GHC, and symlinks the binaries to /usr/local/bin * I had to build the distro package by hand using Apple's GUI tool because I can't figure out how to do it otherwise -- and not for lack of trying, either, I reckon I've put 20-30 man-hours into trying to figure it out -- thanks Apple! Similarly, for the life of me I cannot figure out how to bundle GHC and the platform libs together into one installer. * There's some haddock documentation in there but I'm not sure how nicely it's cross-linked. * The code is a mess, I need to clean it up (and systematize the process) before it's fit for inclusion into the project. * I've done some (very) limited testing but given how difficult the whole project has been, I fully expect problems. Sorry about how long it's taken -- I'm getting married on Saturday (!) so finding time to work on this has been difficult indeed. G. -- Gregory Collins <g...@gregorycollins.net> _______________________________________________ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform
