On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 01:29:10PM +1100, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote: > Ian Lynagh: > > On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 12:56:00PM -0800, Mark Lentczner wrote: > >> > >> Outstanding question is what should this framework be called? I would like > >> to continue to call it GHC.framework, but change the version to something > >> like 7.0.1+HP-i386, > > > > I think it ought to be called Haskell-Platform.framework. > > The GHC.framework inside the Haskell Platform should still be the > GHC.framework. The rest of the Haskell Platform might be in a different > framework (or further, more specific frameworks identifying the individual > components inside). A Mac OS X framework is *not* a unit of distribution. > It is more like a library with associated meta data and tools. You wouldn't > rename glibc to, say, ubuntulibc just because you happen to get it via an > Ubuntu install.
Oh, if the framework just contains GHC then GHC.framework makes sense. > >> [*] The binary GHC distribution could be > >> - built by the GHC team, and asking them for a tarball (as Duncan > >> suggested) > > > > I do "make framework-pkg" to build the OS X installer, but it's > > essentially a black box to me. We're happy to accept patches that make > > this also produce a bindist, though. > > > > Now that we have the Haskell Platform, perhaps we should stop making GHC > > OS X installers, and only make plain old unix bindists. > > Especially given that the Haskell Platform is released many months after GHC, > please keep making GHC OS X installers. At the very least, that will lead to > more GHC installs and *testing* on OS X between the GHC release and Haskell > Platform release. For previous GHC releases, some OS X users have been not testing GHC RCs as that would mean uninstalling their current GHC (which they know works, and has a load of packages installed). That's semi-fixed now (there are still some issues, e.g. you can't install an earlier version than you already have installed - although I don't know how "earlier" is determined), but even so a bindist installed under ~ may feel safer to people who don't want their system GHC affected. Thanks Ian _______________________________________________ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform
