Hello all, I've put together a summary [1] of the current Platform packaging status across the entire range of distributions which we might want to support.
On the whole, things are pretty positive. Most mainstream distributions offer 2014.2.0.0. These include, * Debian * Ubuntu * Fedora * Gentoo * FreeBSD * OpenBSD * MacPorts There are a few places where it would be nice to see some improvement, however. We currently have no packaging via homebrew, which I believe is quite widely used among Mac users. It's unclear what state CentOS/RHEL packaging is in, although I suspect users of these distributions are used to out of date packaging and consequently won't mind using the binary tarballs (assuming they will run). Another solution to the CentOS/RHEL problem might be to provide a Docker image. I'm not terribly familiar with Docker but it does seem to have gained quite a hipness factor, for better or worse. Cheers, - Ben [1] https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform/wiki/Distributions
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