Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allb...@ece.cmu.edu writes:
I wonder when we'll get a good haskell virtual package on Debian?
What would this package do?
Install ghc + all the little pieces of libghc6-cruft needed to get a
sane working environment?
Sounds easy to do (after all, it's just an empty
I'm still learning Haskell and also evaluating whether I want to use
the language in my work.
It seems like a fascinating language so far (although I don't know if
laziness will be a detriment later for me eventually), but I'm a bit
worried about the overall quality of its GHC implementation.
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 12:35 PM, John Dorsey hask...@colquitt.org wrote:
Once it's installed and working, GHC's a very decent compiler.
My general null hypothesis is, as Alec Baldwin put it, that a loser is
a loser, or a buggy project is buggy.
If GHC is robust overall (which I'm yet to find
That is strange, I'm using Ubuntu myself, and I come from Windows so know
absolutely nothing about Linux whatsoever, but GHC 6.10.2 binary installed
without problems.
But anyway, in this case, if you're on Windows, installation of GHC works
like a charm: download, install, play. But for most of
What about 6.10.1? Is it failing too?
On 5 Apr 2009, at 22:22, FFT wrote:
I'm still learning Haskell and also evaluating whether I want to use
the language in my work.
It seems like a fascinating language so far (although I don't know if
laziness will be a detriment later for me eventually),
FFT wrote:
John Dorsey wrote:
Once it's installed and working, GHC's a very decent compiler.
My general null hypothesis is, as Alec Baldwin put it, that a loser is
a loser, or a buggy project is buggy.
If GHC is robust overall (which I'm yet to find out), why is the
installation so broken?
Quoth FFT:
My general null hypothesis is, as Alec Baldwin put it, that a loser is
a loser, or a buggy project is buggy.
I can't see the world in such black and white terms. GHC has strengths
and weaknesses, as do other projects. GHC is changing over time, as are
other projects.
Formally
FFT wrote:
I'm still learning Haskell and also evaluating whether I want to use
the language in my work.
snip
For example, I tried installing GHC-6.10.2 on my Ubuntu 8.04 machine
(probably the most mainstream Linux these days).
I'm on Ubuntu 8.10 and soon to move to 9.04 and I agree that
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo
mle...@mega-nerd.com wrote:
FFT wrote:
I'm still learning Haskell and also evaluating whether I want to use
the language in my work.
snip
For example, I tried installing GHC-6.10.2 on my Ubuntu 8.04 machine
(probably the most mainstream
Jason Dagit wrote:
In particular, I advise my friends not to install GHC from apt on
Debian/Ubuntu because of the way the packages are fractured on those
distros.
Fractured?
Nothing but problems for casual Haskell hackers. If you
know your distro and Haskell well, then sure it's easy to
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Peter Verswyvelen bugf...@gmail.com wrote:
That is strange, I'm using Ubuntu myself, and I come from Windows so know
absolutely nothing about Linux whatsoever, but GHC 6.10.2 binary installed
without problems.
Are you running 32-bit Ubuntu 8.04 ?
On 2009 Apr 5, at 19:47, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Jason Dagit wrote:
I wonder when we'll get a good haskell virtual package on Debian?
What would this package do?
Install ghc + all the little pieces of libghc6-cruft needed to get a
sane working environment?
--
brandon s. allbery
On 6 Apr 2009, at 1:05 pm, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
On 2009 Apr 5, at 19:47, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
What would this package do?
Install ghc + all the little pieces of libghc6-cruft needed to get a
sane working environment?
I want the Zen package: Make me one with
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo
mle...@mega-nerd.com wrote:
Jason Dagit wrote:
In particular, I advise my friends not to install GHC from apt on
Debian/Ubuntu because of the way the packages are fractured on those
distros.
Fractured?
In the sense that they split up the
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