Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 4:27 AM, Ben Gamari <b...@smart-cactus.org> wrote:
>
>> Just to be clear, at the moment Homebrew has no Haskell Platform
>> packaging.
>>
>
> I should probably mention that the most likely reason for this is that they
> had problems packaging ghc 7.8 (which is why the ghcformacosx repo was
> created) and rather than keep an old 7.6-based platform they just removed
> all of it. They did eventually sort out ghc, I think, but never went back
> and recreated the Platform packages.
>
Thanks for this insight! It sounds as though this would be fairly easy
to resolve for someone with the right hardware: just dust off the old
recipe, bump some versions, and try it; no?

Cheers,

- Ben

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