indeed! Also respectfully, "extracting the binary from haskell platform" sounds like it creates more problems than it solves. :)
The cabal-install devs have already said they're happy and willing to work on providing binaries for the major platforms, and I am happy to figure out how I can support them do what it is their prerogative. (as they said earlier in this thread) *tl;dr* I support the cabal-install devs taking ownership of making sure the "*$current-majorVersion*" cabal-install is easily downloadable as a stand alone static binary on all major OS / Arch platforms. It accomplishes the goal of my RFC as long as its made prominently visible / discoverable, and as long as its a responsibility they are willing to commit to supporting. (dont want to force it on them! :) ). Honestl how can i help get this started? (i'm a bit spread thin, but if i can help push it along i'm happy to) On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Páli Gábor János <pali.ga...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 2:35 AM, George Colpitts > <george.colpi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I don't see the point of releasing a new Platform version every > > X months if it doesn't add significant capability or fix significant > bugs. > > I can only comment on this from my perspective again. On FreeBSD, we > (are trying to) track the Haskell Platform specifications strictly and > it is not worth the effort to have multiple versions of the same > package (I have been already providing binary packages for 2 > architectures and 4 majors versions), so we are basically "locked" to > the versions of the HP libraries and tools. > > For example, I could have appreciated a new release of HP, since it > would have allowed me to update the ports for the ALUT and OpenAL > package as they depend on OpenGL >= 2.9.0.0. Similarly, a newer > version of alex and happy are also required by some of the maintained > packages, but until they are not updated as part of the Platform, I > cannot really update them. (Unless if I decided to patch them to work > with the older versions -- if I could.) > > Over 530 maintained packages, it is becoming a quite interesting game > if the base set of libraries (but curiously, not the compiler) are > lagging a year behind. > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-platform mailing list > Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org > http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform >
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