Re: [Haskell-cafe] haskell platform broken in ubuntu

2013-10-05 Thread Shrivats
Rustom, I've not looked at your forums link, what Vagif might be referring to is, since you've already got your compiler installed, installing the platform is /just/ compiling the remaining modules that are part of the platform. Of course, building the compiler from source would take a very long

Re: [Haskell-cafe] haskell platform broken in ubuntu

2013-10-05 Thread Vagif Verdi
Oops my bad. The script downloads and installs binary, already compiled ghc. So it certainly does not take 2 hours, i just did it on 2 computers and it takes less than a couple of minutes. I did not though install the entire haskell platform, only ghc itself. On Friday, October 4, 2013

[Haskell-cafe] haskell platform broken in ubuntu

2013-10-04 Thread Rustom Mody
I just upgraded my ubuntu laptop to 13.04 and haskell platform is gone!! http://askubuntu.com/questions/286764/how-to-install-haskell-platform-for-ubuntu-13-04 What is the current status on this? Is 13.10 going to correct this? ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing

Re: [Haskell-cafe] haskell platform broken in ubuntu

2013-10-04 Thread Vagif Verdi
13.04 has packages for ghc 7.6.2 It is easy to install latest haskell platform though. Just run this script: https://github.com/chrisprobst/ubuntu-raring-haskell On Friday, October 4, 2013 8:11:46 PM UTC-7, rusi wrote: I just upgraded my ubuntu laptop to 13.04 and haskell platform is gone!!

Re: [Haskell-cafe] haskell platform broken in ubuntu

2013-10-04 Thread Rustom Mody
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Vagif Verdi vagif.ve...@gmail.com wrote: 13.04 has packages for ghc 7.6.2 It is easy to install latest haskell platform though. Just run this script: https://github.com/chrisprobst/ubuntu-raring-haskell I was hoping that something a little less painful than

Re: [Haskell-cafe] haskell platform broken in ubuntu

2013-10-04 Thread Vagif Verdi
That will give you only ghc 7.6.2. If you want latest haskell-platform, source compile is the only option. And btw it is not THAT painful :) You run the script, wait 2-3 minutes and tada! On Friday, October 4, 2013 8:44:29 PM UTC-7, rusi wrote: On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Vagif Verdi

Re: [Haskell-cafe] haskell platform broken in ubuntu

2013-10-04 Thread Rustom Mody
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Vagif Verdi vagif.ve...@gmail.com wrote: That will give you only ghc 7.6.2. If you want latest haskell-platform, source compile is the only option. And btw it is not THAT painful :) You run the script, wait 2-3 minutes and tada! Ok so someone is very confused

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform and Leksah on Windows

2013-08-09 Thread Hamish Mackenzie
On 9 Aug 2013, at 06:43, Vagif Verdi vagif.ve...@gmail.com wrote: Leksah is a linux program intented to run on linux. No, it is also intended to run on OS X and Windows. You can (in some cases) successfully install and run it on windows, but you would need to go through certain steps

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform and Leksah on Windows

2013-08-09 Thread Hamish Mackenzie
On 9 Aug 2013, at 07:58, Gregory Weber gdwe...@iue.edu wrote: GTK and its (non-Haskell) dependencies seem to be the tricky part. I found the instructions for installing Gtk2hs on Windows http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Gtk2Hs/Installation#Windows a bit sketchy, so wrote a blog post

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform and Leksah on Windows

2013-08-09 Thread David Virebayre
Hi, If you go the EclipseFP approach, you may have installations troubles too. In my case, it was due to having a version of GHC and libraries that EclipseFP doesn't like. Once I got it to work, I loved it. David. 2013/8/8 Dorin Lazar dorin.la...@gmail.com: Hi, I understood what's wrong

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform and Leksah on Windows

2013-08-09 Thread Alberto G. Corona
For those who want to be productive rather than talkative masoquists (thus said with all my love ;)), there are windows installers for Leksah and they work perfectly well. 2013/8/9 David Virebayre dav.vire+hask...@gmail.com Hi, If you go the EclipseFP approach, you may have installations

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform and Leksah on Windows

2013-08-08 Thread Manuel Gómez
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 12:48 AM, Mihai Maruseac mihai.marus...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, A friend of mine tried to install Haskell Platform and Leksah on Windows and was troubled by the amount of problems he encountered as a beginner in this. I've told him to ask over IRC and mailing list but

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform and Leksah on Windows

2013-08-08 Thread Vagif Verdi
While your friend is wrong to blame haskell on his leksah installation problems i think the culprit here is the leksah web site. It misinforms users saying that leksah runs on windows. It's like Blizzard saying Diablo 3 runs on linux because there are reports of linux users successfully running

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform and Leksah on Windows

2013-08-08 Thread Carter Schonwald
Hey Dorin, I don't understand your claims. 1) haskell has worked perfectly well on windows for quite some time. I used HUGs nearly a decade ago, and in more recent time (2-3 years ago) I helped teach an introductory first computer science class using GHC where many students were doing great work

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform and Leksah on Windows

2013-08-08 Thread Dorin Lazar
Hi, I understood what's wrong about my approach - and since I want to use an IDE to assist me, I will try both EclipseFP and Sublime Text, to see how that works. My feeling was that since the leksah website suggested that cabal is the way to do it and since when I search for a Haskell IDE that is

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform and Leksah on Windows

2013-08-08 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Dorin Lazar dorin.la...@gmail.com wrote: I was also in awe of the fact that nobody really says anything about these difficulties, and felt like an estranged child that messed things up badly; however, it seems that the real issue is that nobody really does it

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform and Leksah on Windows

2013-08-08 Thread Gregory Weber
On 2013-Aug-08, Vagif Verdi and/or a Mail User Agent wrote: ... Leksah is a linux program intented to run on linux. You can (in some cases) successfully install and run it on windows, but you would need to go through certain steps installing some unrelated to windows software

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform and Leksah on Windows

2013-08-07 Thread Albert Y. C. Lai
On 13-08-07 01:18 AM, Mihai Maruseac wrote: Anyway, he blogged about his problems at http://dorinlazar.ro/haskell-platform-windows-crippled/ and I'm sure that we can work on fixing some of them. To learn Haskell on Windows, and with Haskell Platform already installed, it is very easy and KISS

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform and Leksah on Windows

2013-08-07 Thread Carter Schonwald
Hello Mihai, you bring up 2 unrelated questions, i'll address them seperately 1) Leksah should not be considered an official haskell ide, but merely one of many community supported editing tools. And frankly one of the less widely used ones at that! Leksah is not used much at all by anyone,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform and Leksah on Windows

2013-08-07 Thread Mihai Maruseac
Hello all, Thanks for your replies, I've relayed them to my acquaintance. Though he still doesn't understand that he's at fault for demanding the unreasonable. On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 6:28 AM, Carter Schonwald carter.schonw...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Mihai, you bring up 2 unrelated questions,

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform and Leksah on Windows

2013-08-06 Thread Mihai Maruseac
Hello, A friend of mine tried to install Haskell Platform and Leksah on Windows and was troubled by the amount of problems he encountered as a beginner in this. I've told him to ask over IRC and mailing list but it seems he has some problems with registration. Anyway, he blogged about his

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform 2013.2.0.0 64bit.pkg

2013-06-15 Thread aditya bhargava
As a side note, I have stopped having cabal issues since I started using hsenv. It sandboxes packages for you. So if you have install problems you just need to delete a local .hsenv directory instead of reinstalling everything. On Jun 12, 2013 11:15 PM, Richard A. O'Keefe o...@cs.otago.ac.nz

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform 2013.2.0.0 64bit.pkg

2013-06-14 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 06/13/2013 02:13 AM, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote: My original problem was that I wanted to load a particular set of packages using 'cabal install'. It didn't work (cabal install issues) and while the maintainer reacted promptly and helpfully, cabal kept on trying to install the wrong version.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform 2013.2.0.0 64bit.pkg

2013-06-13 Thread Richard A. O'Keefe
My original problem was that I wanted to load a particular set of packages using 'cabal install'. It didn't work (cabal install issues) and while the maintainer reacted promptly and helpfully, cabal kept on trying to install the wrong version. Part of the problem was that blasting away ~/.cabal

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform 2013.2.0.0 64bit.pkg

2013-06-12 Thread Richard A. O'Keefe
Today I cleared out everything, using uninstall-hs and rm -rf ~/.cabal ~/Library/Haskell I downloaded Haskell Platform 2013.2.0.0 64bit.pkg and installed it. I was unsuccessful in installing the packages I wanted using cabal install, which suggested running ghc-pkg check. So I cleared out

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform 2013.2.0.0 64bit.pkg

2013-06-12 Thread Roman Cheplyaka
* Richard A. O'Keefe o...@cs.otago.ac.nz [2013-06-13 17:37:57+1200] Today I cleared out everything, using uninstall-hs and rm -rf ~/.cabal ~/Library/Haskell I downloaded Haskell Platform 2013.2.0.0 64bit.pkg and installed it. I was unsuccessful in installing the packages I wanted using

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform - BSD License?

2012-08-02 Thread Manuel M T Chakravarty
Thomas Schilling nomin...@googlemail.com: You may concatenate the licenses of all the packages you are using. GHC includes the LGPL libgmp. The license file for each package is mentioned in the .cabal file. If you need a version of GHC free of the LGPL, you can build GHC from source

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform - BSD License?

2012-07-31 Thread Sai Hemanth K
Hi, I am trying to use haskell for building a tool (in a commercial setting). I am trying to figure out what all licenses are involved here. Is there a single license for the entire haskell platform (and the runtime) or is it that I need to look at the individual licenses of all the libraries

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform - BSD License?

2012-07-31 Thread Magnus Therning
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Sai Hemanth K saihema...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am trying to use haskell for building a tool (in a commercial setting). I am trying to figure out what all licenses are involved here. Is there a single license for the entire haskell platform (and the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform - BSD License?

2012-07-31 Thread Sai Hemanth K
Thanks Magnus. I guess it means that the license of individual packages is what that matters. The platform on the whole does not have any single license. In other words, I cannot just say that am using haskell platform but that I have to say, I am using x,y and z libraries which in turn are using

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform - BSD License?

2012-07-31 Thread Carter Schonwald
it looks like ghc itself is under a BSD3 style license, if thats any help. So per se, I think you can assume youre dealing with a BSD3 through and through system. see here for the ghc info http://www.haskell.org/ghc/license (this is something i've been sorting out for my own projects too, and to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform - BSD License?

2012-07-31 Thread Thomas Schilling
You may concatenate the licenses of all the packages you are using. GHC includes the LGPL libgmp. The license file for each package is mentioned in the .cabal file. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

[Haskell-cafe] haskell-platform vs macports

2012-03-22 Thread Warren Harris
I assume that many haskell users out there on macs who are also users of macports, and I bet they've hit this same issue that I've hit numerous times. The problem is that there are 2 incompatible versions of libiconv -- one that ships with the mac, and one that's built with macports and that

Re: [Haskell-cafe] haskell-platform vs macports

2012-03-22 Thread Thomas Schilling
If you're not otherwise attached to MacPorts, you might want to check out Homebrew [1]. Its integration with the rest of OS X is generally more smoothly and I haven't come across any missing packages yet. [1]: http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/ On 22 March 2012 16:34, Warren Harris

Re: [Haskell-cafe] haskell-platform vs macports

2012-03-22 Thread Warren Harris
Thomas, Thanks for the recommendation. I tried installing with homebrew, and it went fairly smoothly. Only 12 minutes to build haskell-platform, as opposed to the 11 hours to run port upgrade outdated yesterday! I did have to get help on one thing though. Although the mac ships with

Re: [Haskell-cafe] haskell platform - mac lion - installation error

2012-03-11 Thread Sjoerd Visscher
Once the Mac Haskell Platform installer is updated, it should no longer be needed to install Xcode. Then it should be enough to install the Command Line Tools package from https://developer.apple.com/downloads/ which is just a 171Mb download instead of the 1.85Gb for the whole Xcode toolset.

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell-platform and ghc 7.4

2012-03-11 Thread G
Am new to haskell, but one thing I wanted to try out was the performance of an app in haskel. Having issues getting it to compile under ghc 7.0.4. The owner recommend trying to upgrade to 7.2/7.4 I see a warning that the haskell-platform isn't compatible with with 7.4.1, or so my homebrew

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell-platform and ghc 7.4

2012-03-11 Thread Ras Far
Hi. What has worked for me is to install a binary package for 7.4.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_7_4_1#binaries You can install it someplace special by giving --prefix=/someplace/special to the configure script. Then, adjust your path to hit /someplace/special/bin before it hits

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell-platform and ghc 7.4

2012-03-11 Thread G
Ah, sounds a good idea. Thanks___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] haskell platform - mac lion - installation error

2012-03-10 Thread Peter
Hello - I'm a new user, having some trouble installing the Haskell Platform (2011.4.0.0 64bit.pkg) on a Macbook Pro (10.7.3). I installed Xcode 4.3.1 (4E1019), then the Haskell Platform. When I double-click on the Platform package icon, I get an installation dialogue with an error message reading

Re: [Haskell-cafe] haskell platform - mac lion - installation error

2012-03-10 Thread S D Swierstra
1) Check whether you have a /Developer directory, and if not 2) look in your Applications folder to see whether you have program called Install XCode and if so run that It may be that you just downloaded the installer and did not run it? Doaitse On Mar 10, 2012, at 10:15 , Peter wrote:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] haskell platform - mac lion - installation error

2012-03-10 Thread Aristid Breitkreuz
XCode 4.3 does not install the Unix development environment by default anymore. Go to the XCode preferences, and then to the Download pane, there should be an Install button for that. Aristid 2012/3/10 Peter smeldr...@gmail.com Hello - I'm a new user, having some trouble installing the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] haskell platform - mac lion - installation error

2012-03-10 Thread Salvador Lucas
Dear Peter, I recently had a similar problem with the same Haskell Platform version but on a Macmini (running Lion as well). I learnt that you have to install the 'command line tools' by using the 'preferences' of your XCode installation. After that, everything will work. Best regards,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] haskell platform - mac lion - installation error

2012-03-10 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 06:57, S D Swierstra doai...@uu.nl wrote: 1) Check whether you have a /Developer directory, and if not 2) look in your Applications folder to see whether you have program called Install XCode and if so run that Xcode 4.3.x does not use /Developer. The new path is

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform and Windows - where's 2011.4?

2011-12-27 Thread Steve Horne
On haskell.org, the 2011.4.0.0 version is shown as the current stable release - but the most recent download link is for the 2011.2.0.0 version. This is bugging me a little because the documentation in the 2011.2 Haskell Platform download for Windows is broken - there's at least one bug

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform and Windows - where's 2011.4?

2011-12-27 Thread Bas van Dijk
On 27 December 2011 19:13, Steve Horne sh006d3...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: On haskell.org, the 2011.4.0.0 version is shown as the current stable release - but the most recent download link is for the 2011.2.0.0 version. What download link are you referring to? I see that:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform and Windows - where's 2011.4?

2011-12-27 Thread Don Stewart
All versions went live last week. Are you perhaps looking at an expired or cached page? On Tuesday, December 27, 2011, Bas van Dijk v.dijk@gmail.com wrote: On 27 December 2011 19:13, Steve Horne sh006d3...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: On haskell.org, the 2011.4.0.0 version is shown as the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform and Windows - where's 2011.4?

2011-12-27 Thread Steve Horne
On 27/12/2011 18:36, Bas van Dijk wrote: On 27 December 2011 19:13, Steve Hornesh006d3...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: On haskell.org, the 2011.4.0.0 version is shown as the current stable release - but the most recent download link is for the 2011.2.0.0 version. What download link are you

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform and Windows - where's 2011.4?

2011-12-27 Thread Steve Horne
On 27/12/2011 18:57, Steve Horne wrote: OK - I really should have tried that before. But... why would an old page hang around in my Firefox cache so long and not get updated? I've not had this on any other sites. I still should be doing more checking before posting. A look in the source for

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform 64 bit

2011-11-30 Thread Philippe Sismondi
On 2011-11-28, at 5:59 PM, David Pollak wrote: Please try the following: raptor:~ root# rm -rf /Library/Haskell/ raptor:~ root# cd ~dpp/Library/ raptor:Library root# rm -rf Haskell/ raptor:Library root# cd .. raptor:dpp root# rm -rf .cabal/ raptor:dpp root# I think the issue is

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform 64 bit

2011-11-28 Thread Jean-Marie Gaillourdet
Hi, On 26.11.2011, at 01:29, Philippe Sismondi wrote: I just tried to install the Haskell Platform 64-bit on OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8. The install fails with an error. This is all I see in /var/log/install.log: 11-11-25 6:22:01 PM Installer[53992]The Installer encountered an

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform 64 bit

2011-11-28 Thread David Pollak
Please try the following: raptor:~ root# rm -rf /Library/Haskell/ raptor:~ root# cd ~dpp/Library/ raptor:Library root# rm -rf Haskell/ raptor:Library root# cd .. raptor:dpp root# rm -rf .cabal/ raptor:dpp root# I think the issue is that the installer was trying to install on top of an existing

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform

2011-11-27 Thread Heinrich Apfelmus
Jeremy O'Donoghue wrote: Jerzy Karczmarczuk wrote: B. Does anybody care about wxHaskell? Actually there has been quite a bit of work on wxHaskell recently, although most has not made it into the mainline yet. The archives of wxhaskell-users and wxhaskell-devel (both at Sourceforge) contain

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform

2011-11-25 Thread Jeremy O'Donoghue
Hi Jerzy, On 24 November 2011 15:57, Jerzy Karczmarczuk jerzy.karczmarc...@unicaen.fr wrote: B. Does anybody care about wxHaskell? Actually there has been quite a bit of work on wxHaskell recently, although most has not made it into the mainline yet. The archives of wxhaskell-users and

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform 64 bit

2011-11-25 Thread Philippe Sismondi
I just tried to install the Haskell Platform 64-bit on OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8. The install fails with an error. This is all I see in /var/log/install.log: 11-11-25 6:22:01 PM Installer[53992]The Installer encountered an error that caused the installation to fail. Contact the

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform

2011-11-24 Thread Jerzy Karczmarczuk
Dear Gurus, A. Why the Haskell Platform is still based on ghc 7.03? (At least on WinXP) B. Does anybody care about wxHaskell? Thanks. Jerzy Karczmarczuk ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform

2011-11-24 Thread Pascal Wittmann
On 11/24/2011 04:57 PM, Jerzy Karczmarczuk wrote: A. Why the Haskell Platform is still based on ghc 7.03? (At least on WinXP) IIRC 7.2 is some kind of technology preview. So it won't be included in the haskell platform. The next version that is planed for the haskell platform is 7.4 Please

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform for OSX ?

2011-11-09 Thread dokondr
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 3:48 AM, Rogan Creswick cresw...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com wrote: 3) How to install it into a separate location so it would not ruin my current platform? You can install it under a different username.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform for OSX ?

2011-11-09 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 8:26 AM, dokondr doko...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 3:48 AM, Rogan Creswick cresw...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com wrote: 3) How to install it into a separate location so it would not ruin my

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform for OSX ?

2011-11-09 Thread dokondr
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.comwrote: I meant install new packages through cabal under a different username. The cabal repo should be localized unless you specify --global Please see Rogan's suggestions. Thanks for your help! In case I upgrade to the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform for OSX ?

2011-11-09 Thread Albert Y. C. Lai
On 11-11-09 06:37 AM, dokondr wrote: In case I upgrade to the latest Haskell Platform, what will happen to packages already installed in my ~/.cabal folder? Some of these are quite old and most probably will be incompatible with GHC 7 Does upgrade process remove old and create anew ~/.cabal

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform for OSX ?

2011-11-09 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 3:37 AM, dokondr doko...@gmail.com wrote: In case I upgrade to the latest Haskell Platform, what will happen to packages already installed  in my ~/.cabal folder? Some of these are quite old and most probably will be incompatible with GHC 7 Does upgrade process remove

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform for OSX ?

2011-11-08 Thread dokondr
Hi, I am running GHC 6.12.3 at Mac OSX and have numerous problems with 'cabal install' of different packages. For example: ~cabal install mongoDB Resolving dependencies... Configuring mongoDB-1.1.0... Preprocessing library mongoDB-1.1.0... Building mongoDB-1.1.0... ... Control/Monad/MVar.hs:16:34:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform for OSX ?

2011-11-08 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:31 PM, dokondr doko...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am running GHC 6.12.3 at Mac OSX and have numerous problems with 'cabal install' of different packages. [...] Questions about current Haskell Platform for OSX 2011.2.0.1. :

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform for OSX ?

2011-11-08 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com wrote: 3) How to install it into a separate location so it would not ruin my current platform?  You can install it under a different username. You can also use a sandboxed build tool like cabal-dev or virthualenv -- both

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform Older Releases for Linux

2011-09-12 Thread Luis Cabellos
Thanks, i can check the ghc version on cabal file. On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Joachim Breitner m...@joachim-breitner.dewrote: Hi, Am Freitag, den 09.09.2011, 13:02 +0200 schrieb Luis Cabellos: I search the Haskell Platform webpage for older releases, I found it but maybe it's

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform Older Releases for Linux

2011-09-09 Thread Luis Cabellos
Hi, I search the Haskell Platform webpage for older releases, I found it but maybe it's worth to put a table of older releases as tar.gz file with their ghc dependency, like (versions totally make up): HP 2011.2.0.0 source, March 2011. - ghc 13.1 HP 2010.2.0.0 source, July 2010. - ghc 3.14

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform Older Releases for Linux

2011-09-09 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Freitag, den 09.09.2011, 13:02 +0200 schrieb Luis Cabellos: I search the Haskell Platform webpage for older releases, I found it but maybe it's worth to put a table of older releases as tar.gz file with their ghc dependency, like (versions totally make up): HP 2011.2.0.0

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform on Ubuntu: Installation Problems

2011-07-04 Thread Dmitri O.Kondratiev
Hi, I am trying to install Haskell Platform on latest Ubuntu desktop: ( uname -a: Linux frigate 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:24 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux ) I started with installing GHC. Ubuntu could only install version 6.12.3: without Cabal! Now I am trying to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform on Ubuntu: Installation Problems

2011-07-04 Thread Adrien Haxaire
Hello, I encountered the same kind of problems with the dependencies, GHC 6.12 etc. I dropped the idea of installing Haskell Platform with synaptic. I installed it manually and I don't have any problem since then. I installed first a precompiled binary version GHC 7 then the Haskell

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform on Ubuntu: Installation Problems

2011-07-04 Thread Dmitri O.Kondratiev
Adrien Haxaire adrien at adrienhaxaire.org wrote: I dropped the idea of installing Haskell Platform with synaptic. I installed it manually and I don't have any problem since then. To install GHC 7, have you completely de-installed GHC 6.12.3 and all related libraries ? On Mon, Jul 4, 2011

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform on Ubuntu: Installation Problems

2011-07-04 Thread anonymous
No, you shouldn't need to do that. Just download the Haskell Platform and GHC 7: http://lambda.galois.com/hp-tmp/2011.2.0.1/haskell-platform-2011.2.0.1.tar.gz http://haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.0.3/ghc-7.0.3-i386-unknown-linux.tar.bz2 Extract ghc, change into the directory, run configure, then make

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform on Ubuntu: Installation Problems

2011-07-04 Thread Adrien Haxaire
To install GHC 7, have you completely de-installed GHC 6.12.3 and all related libraries ? I am not sure if uninstalling GHC 6.12.3 is mandatory, but I did it to have a clean Haskell installation. Then I did what anonymous has summarized below: Just download the Haskell Platform and GHC

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform on Ubuntu: Installation Problems

2011-07-04 Thread Dmitri O.Kondratiev
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 6:24 PM, anonymous qubi...@gmail.com wrote: No, you shouldn't need to do that. Just download the Haskell Platform and GHC 7: http://lambda.galois.com/hp-tmp/2011.2.0.1/haskell-platform-2011.2.0.1.tar.gz

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform on Ubuntu: Installation Problems

2011-07-04 Thread Adrien Haxaire
You're welcome :) Adrien On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 19:09:50 +0400, Dmitri O.Kondratiev wrote: I noticed that ) I removed GHC 6 completely. Then installed platform-independent GHC 7 compiler. Next to configure and eventually compile Haskell Platform I had to install  libgmp3-dev, zlib and OpenGL

[Haskell-cafe] haskell platform question

2011-06-07 Thread Tim Docker
I'd like to build the haskell platform against a recent GHC snapshot, for testing purposes. I see that I can download the source for the platform from: http://lambda.galois.com/hp-tmp/2011.2.0.1/haskell-platform-2011.2.0.1.tar.gz with instructions:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] haskell platform question

2011-06-07 Thread Don Stewart
It should build. If it doesn't, please report a bug. On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Tim Docker t...@dockerz.net wrote: I'd like to build the haskell platform against a recent GHC snapshot, for testing purposes. I see that I can download the source for the platform from:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] haskell platform question

2011-06-07 Thread Don Stewart
Oh, sorry, missed the first line. Building against GHC snapshots isn't supported. On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Don Stewart don...@gmail.com wrote: It should build. If it doesn't, please report a bug. On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Tim Docker t...@dockerz.net wrote: I'd like to build the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] haskell platform question

2011-06-07 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
On 7 June 2011 21:34, Tim Docker t...@dockerz.net wrote: Surely wanting to test against a ghc snapshot isn't that odd? How do others go about testing their code with many hackage dependencies against a new ghc? I would have expected that the first thing to do would be get the platform up and

Re: [Haskell-cafe] haskell platform question

2011-06-07 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 07:34, Tim Docker t...@dockerz.net wrote: On 07/06/2011, at 8:48 PM, Don Stewart wrote: Oh, sorry, missed the first line. Building against GHC snapshots isn't supported. Surely wanting to test against a ghc snapshot isn't that odd? How The point of the Haskell

Re: [Haskell-cafe] haskell platform question

2011-06-07 Thread Tim Docker
On 07/06/11 14:03, Brandon Allbery wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 07:34, Tim Dockert...@dockerz.net wrote: do others go about testing their code with many hackage dependencies against a new ghc? I would have expected that the first thing to do would be get the We don't, for the most part;

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1 now available

2011-04-17 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Samstag, den 16.04.2011, 11:17 -0700 schrieb Don Stewart: On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Joachim Breitner nome...@debian.org wrote: Am Freitag, den 15.04.2011, 15:44 -0700 schrieb Don Stewart: We're pleased to announce the 2011.2.0.1 release of the Haskell Platform: a single,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1 now available

2011-04-16 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Freitag, den 15.04.2011, 15:44 -0700 schrieb Don Stewart: We're pleased to announce the 2011.2.0.1 release of the Haskell Platform: a single, standard Haskell distribution for everyone. Download the Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1: http://haskell.org/platform/ or use Debian

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1 now available

2011-04-16 Thread Don Stewart
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Joachim Breitner nome...@debian.org wrote: Hi, Am Freitag, den 15.04.2011, 15:44 -0700 schrieb Don Stewart: We're pleased to announce the 2011.2.0.1 release of the Haskell Platform: a single, standard Haskell distribution for everyone. Download the Haskell

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1 now available

2011-04-15 Thread Don Stewart
We're pleased to announce the 2011.2.0.1 release of the Haskell Platform: a single, standard Haskell distribution for everyone. Download the Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1: http://haskell.org/platform/ This release adds support for GHC 7.0.3, and significant improvements for Mac OS X users.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1 now available

2011-04-15 Thread Conal Elliott
This release adds support for GHC 7.0.3, and significant improvements for Mac OS X users. Enticing! What are these significant improvements for Mac OS X users? - Conal On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Don Stewart don...@gmail.com wrote: We're pleased to announce the 2011.2.0.1 release

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1 now available

2011-04-15 Thread Don Stewart
XCode 4 works, amongst other things: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.0.3/html/users_guide/release-7-0-3.html Cheers, Don On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Conal Elliott co...@conal.net wrote: This release adds support for GHC 7.0.3, and significant improvements for Mac OS X users.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform 2011.2

2011-03-09 Thread Mark Lentczner
code.haskell.org is the release repo code.galois.com is current development repo - Mark ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform 2011.2

2011-03-09 Thread Don Stewart
Also, due to reformatting code.haskell.org, the accounts were disabled for a while. On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 6:24 AM, Mark Lentczner mark.lentcz...@gmail.com wrote: code.haskell.org is the release repo code.galois.com is current development repo - Mark

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform web page is out of date

2011-03-09 Thread Paul Johnson
The Haskell Platform web page at http://hackage.haskell.org/platform// seems to need updating. (Incidentally, that double slash at the end doesn't look right). * The next release is promised in Jan 2011. * The Release Timetable schedules the next release for 5 March 2011. I just worry that

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform web page is out of date

2011-03-09 Thread Don Stewart
We're about 1 day away from the release. Hold tight!! -- Don (scramble scramble) On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Paul Johnson p...@cogito.org.uk wrote: The Haskell Platform web page at http://hackage.haskell.org/platform// seems to need updating.  (Incidentally, that double slash at the end

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform 2011.2

2011-03-08 Thread Andrew Coppin
On 06/03/2011 11:46 AM, Andrew Coppin wrote: On 06/03/2011 01:22 AM, Don Stewart wrote: P.S. you can help by testing the installers, and reporting issues on the HP trac and mailing list. The candidate installers are here: http://code.galois.com/darcs/haskell-platform/download-website/ Is

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform 2011.2

2011-03-08 Thread Don Stewart
We have plenty of testers on the haskell-platform@ list. If you're interested, you can join there to discuss results. By definition the test installers are not yet ready for haskell-cafe@ consumption. -- Don On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote: On

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform 2011.2

2011-03-08 Thread Andrew Coppin
On 08/03/2011 08:57 PM, Don Stewart wrote: We have plenty of testers on the haskell-platform@ list. If you're interested, you can join there to discuss results. By definition the test installers are not yet ready for haskell-cafe@ consumption. Oh, right. There's a mailing list? I wasn't aware

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform 2011.2

2011-03-08 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Samstag, den 05.03.2011, 17:22 -0800 schrieb Don Stewart: We're currently testing the installers, with a view to announcing the release early in the week. I thought http://code.haskell.org/haskell-platform/haskell-platform.cabal was the repository for the current darcs version of the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform 2011.2

2011-03-06 Thread Andrew Coppin
On 06/03/2011 01:22 AM, Don Stewart wrote: P.S. you can help by testing the installers, and reporting issues on the HP trac and mailing list. The candidate installers are here: http://code.galois.com/darcs/haskell-platform/download-website/ Is there some way to navigate to this page from

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform 2011.2

2011-03-05 Thread tsuraan
The wiki page for Haskell Platform is still listing March 5 (today) as the planned release date. Is this still the plan, or should the page be updated? ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform 2011.2

2011-03-05 Thread Don Stewart
We're currently testing the installers, with a view to announcing the release early in the week. Cheers, Don P.S. you can help by testing the installers, and reporting issues on the HP trac and mailing list. The candidate installers are here:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform 2011.2

2011-03-05 Thread tsuraan
We're currently testing the installers, with a view to announcing the release early in the week. Very cool. Thanks! ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform install instructions

2011-02-26 Thread Mark Lentczner
* Should we document this somewhere in the Haskell Platform install process? I'm sure many old-time users of cabal are well aware that they need ~/.cabal/bin in the PATH, but new users will not be. In the next version of Haskell Platform, on Mac OS X, happy will be installed with the other

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