Hi, This is a general question relative to the comments in ticket #56 http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/ticket/56
The ticket seems about two issues. On the one hand, the fact configure is not testing for editline, which is an actual bug. But the ticket also hints at whether the generic linux tarball should provide instructions regarding which distro packages correspond to the required C libraries. Another ticket (#1) is about providing the list of C libraries, but does not mention the mapping of this list to distro packages either. A comment in ticket #56 (by Don) mentions that "Solving that problem is for distro packages. Please ask your distro maintainer why Haskell isn't supported on the distro". My question is why should it be so? Wouldn't it be simpler to describe installation by distro in the INSTALL file of a single generic linux tarball rather than building separately packaging for every single distro? The rational is that it takes one line of documentation (a big apt-get) to make the system ready for ghc and platform installation., while it took me one full day to figure out the name of all the required packages from the name of c libraries (obviously, I'm not a linux guru, I guess it would take much less to anyone more experienced, but still...). Please forgive me if providing this distro-specific installation instruction in some INSTALL file was already planed, I might have simply misunderstood. If it is not planed, then this mail is for asking why. Cheers, Regis PS. is anyone currently maintaining Debian packages? I'm asking because currently, the latest packaged ghc is stuck at 6.8.2. _______________________________________________ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform
