Re: [Haskell-cafe] Best Linux Distro for =

2011-06-21 Thread Nicholas Tung
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 June 2011 13:48, Tom Murphy amin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi List, If my choice of Lunix distro depended 100% on its solidness as a Haskell devel platform (I am), what would you all recommend? In

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Best Linux Distro for =

2011-06-19 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Sonntag, den 19.06.2011, 15:33 +1000 schrieb Mark Wright: Fedora, Debian, FreeBSD: I don't use them, however I think they have very good support for Haskell packaging. For example, Fedora updates the haddock documentation index as pkgs are installed and removed same on Debian,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Best Linux Distro for =

2011-06-19 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
On 19 June 2011 20:26, Joachim Breitner nome...@debian.org wrote: Hi, Am Sonntag, den 19.06.2011, 15:33 +1000 schrieb Mark Wright: Fedora, Debian, FreeBSD: I don't use them, however I think they have very good support for Haskell packaging.  For example, Fedora updates the haddock

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Best Linux Distro for =

2011-06-19 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Sonntag, den 19.06.2011, 20:31 +1000 schrieb Ivan Lazar Miljenovic: same on Debian, file:///usr/share/doc/ghc-doc/html/libraries/index.html is one of the most-visited locations in my computer :-) For Debian, you can check where we deviate from the Haskell Platform on

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Best Linux Distro for =

2011-06-19 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
On 19 June 2011 20:51, Joachim Breitner nome...@debian.org wrote: The binary packages. Here is an example for how we make sure that an ABI incompatible change to web-routes requires a rebuild of yesod, and that until that happens the user will not get the new web-routes package installed. $

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Best Linux Distro for =

2011-06-19 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Sonntag, den 19.06.2011, 20:59 +1000 schrieb Ivan Lazar Miljenovic: So the Debian Haskell team then has to update the apt package when there's an ABI mismatch (that is, a dependency has been updated or rebuilt with a new ABI)? Or is this done automagically somehow for the user? we

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Best Linux Distro for =

2011-06-19 Thread Felipe Almeida Lessa
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 June 2011 13:48, Tom Murphy amin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi List,   If my choice of Lunix distro depended 100% on its solidness as a Haskell devel platform (I am), what would you all recommend? In no

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Best Linux Distro for =

2011-06-19 Thread Tom Murphy
On 6/19/11, Arlen Cuss cel...@sairyx.org wrote: In no particular order, the following seem to have good Linux support: Gentoo, Arch, Fedora and Debian (I think Testing). Please allow me to register my amusement at the idea of a distribution with good Linux support. :D I was very surprised

[Haskell-cafe] Best Linux Distro for =

2011-06-18 Thread Tom Murphy
Hi List, If my choice of Lunix distro depended 100% on its solidness as a Haskell devel platform (I am), what would you all recommend? Thanks for your time, Tom ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Best Linux Distro for =

2011-06-18 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
On 19 June 2011 13:48, Tom Murphy amin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi List,   If my choice of Lunix distro depended 100% on its solidness as a Haskell devel platform (I am), what would you all recommend? In no particular order, the following seem to have good Linux support: Gentoo, Arch, Fedora and

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Best Linux Distro for =

2011-06-18 Thread Sean Perry
On Jun 18, 2011, at 8:48 PM, Tom Murphy wrote: Hi List, If my choice of Lunix distro depended 100% on its solidness as a Haskell devel platform (I am), what would you all recommend? If you are going to install the haskell platform and then use Cabal it really does not matter. Any of the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Best Linux Distro for =

2011-06-18 Thread Arlen Cuss
In no particular order, the following seem to have good Linux support: Gentoo, Arch, Fedora and Debian (I think Testing). Please allow me to register my amusement at the idea of a distribution with good Linux support. :D ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Best Linux Distro for =

2011-06-18 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 00:59, Arlen Cuss cel...@sairyx.org wrote: In no particular order, the following seem to have good Linux support: Gentoo, Arch, Fedora and Debian (I think Testing). Please allow me to register my amusement at the idea of a distribution with good Linux support. :D

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Best Linux Distro for =

2011-06-18 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
On 19 June 2011 14:59, Arlen Cuss cel...@sairyx.org wrote: In no particular order, the following seem to have good Linux support: Gentoo, Arch, Fedora and Debian (I think Testing). Please allow me to register my amusement at the idea of a distribution with good Linux support. :D Amusement

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Best Linux Distro for =

2011-06-18 Thread Mark Wright
On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 21:46:53 -0700, Sean Perry sha...@speakeasy.net wrote: On Jun 18, 2011, at 8:48 PM, Tom Murphy wrote: Hi List, If my choice of Lunix distro depended 100% on its solidness as a Haskell devel platform (I am), what would you all recommend? If you are going to