cpatti: > > > On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Don Stewart <d...@galois.com> wrote: > > The following comments about the Haskell Platform appeared in the > State of Haskell survey. > > http://www.johantibell.com/files/state-of-haskell-2010.html > > * I also think Haskell platform isn't getting enough push. People still > think to try Haskell means install ghc. It doesn't help that both > haskell platform and ghc in various linux distro as well as MacPorts > gets lagged behind badly. > > > ... > > * The Macport's portfile is outdated for the haskell platform, and it > is > still at 2009.2.0.2 > > ... > > * Also, the multi-platform issue is a big stopper for me. I'm > developing > on Linux and Windows, maybe on Mac. Mac supports is simply broken, > Haskell platform does not install. On Windows, many packages relying on > C libraries simply do not work. On Linux, Ubuntu does not have official > up to date packages > programming life much simpler. > > > > It's worse than that. The current Haskell-Platform doesn't build at *all* on > current MacOS version. This has percolated downstream to packaging systems > like Homebrew, and leaves people like me who would love to try their hand at > Haskell either giving up, or grudgingly downloading the binary release (which > thankfully works). > > A bug has been filed on this, but it seems like noone has the time to fix it: > http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/ticket/34
Surely the binary installer works. Are you specifically talking about MacPorts? -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform
