Re: Cutting down GHC installation to bare minimum

2010-05-02 Thread Scott Michel
This is a fascinating argument for the Haskell platform vs. a port-directed installation system. Consider if you wanted to customize GHC or another Haskell environment to an embedded system (e.g., prototype embedded flight software for a space vehicle)? What would the bare minimum core be? How

Re: Cutting down GHC installation to bare minimum

2010-04-28 Thread leledumbo
function that can easily be used. Well, problem's solved but I don't know how it works and I don't know whether it performs well or hwo to improve it. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Cutting-down-GHC-installation-to-bare-minimum-tp28374093p28385320.html Sent from the Haskell

Cutting down GHC installation to bare minimum

2010-04-27 Thread leledumbo
://old.nabble.com/Cutting-down-GHC-installation-to-bare-minimum-tp28374093p28374093.html Sent from the Haskell - Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http

Re: Cutting down GHC installation to bare minimum

2010-04-27 Thread Yitzchak Gale
leledumbo wrote: I notice that many of the installed libs aren't required for learning Haskell. What libs are required so I can get the bare minimum version of GHC? For most people, the recommended approach is to install the Haskell Platform. This is not a minimal setup - it includes packages

Re: Cutting down GHC installation to bare minimum

2010-04-27 Thread Dave Bayer
I agree with the answer that Yitz gave, but let me frame it in a bit of context: Many people's idea of a programming language is Python, and within 12 minutes of settling in to a new language they're going to wonder how to match a regular expression to a string, or download a web page, and