Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-30 Thread Ketil Malde
Jason Dagit: The reason I started telling everyone to avoid GHC in apt was the way it was packaged. [..] If they are lucky they figure out which apt package to install. I think people who are too lazy to bother to find out how their distribution works, should avoid any distribution. %

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-30 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Ketil Malde ke...@malde.org writes: I think people who are too lazy to bother to find out how their distribution works, should avoid any distribution. % apt-cache search foo % sudo apt-get install libghc6-foo\* Agreed (to the extent that someone who can't be bothered figuring out an

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-30 Thread Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva
Hi Ivan. Excerpts from Ivan Miljenovic's message of Ter Mar 30 00:01:19 -0300 2010: On 30 March 2010 13:55, Jason Dagit da...@codersbase.com wrote: (...) [..] now trying to profile something, oh wait, some problem again. Agreed, if Debian didn't include the profiling libraries with GHC

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-30 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi Jason and other, thanks for the suggestions, the Debian Haskell Team is eager to learn why people do or don’t use the packaged libraries. Am Dienstag, den 30.03.2010, 14:01 +1100 schrieb Ivan Miljenovic: On 30 March 2010 13:55, Jason Dagit da...@codersbase.com wrote: [..] now trying to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-30 Thread Ketil Malde
Joachim Breitner nome...@debian.org writes: The profiling data is put in -prof packages, i.e. ghc-prof, libghc6-network-prof etc. Indeed, there is no easy way to tell the package system: Whenever I install a Haskell -dev package, please install the -prof package as well. One option might to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-29 Thread Jason Dagit
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 4:53 AM, Joachim Breitner nome...@debian.orgwrote: Hi, Am Sonntag, den 28.03.2010, 09:04 +0100 schrieb Magnus Therning: I have to say it looks like Debian has gotten their act together somewhat when it comes to Haskel development. Many of the reasons for my

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-29 Thread Ivan Miljenovic
On 30 March 2010 13:55, Jason Dagit da...@codersbase.com wrote: The reason I started telling everyone to avoid GHC in apt was the way it was packaged.  Casual Haskell users would install GHC but get something like 1/10th of the libraries GHC installs when you do a source install Is that

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-29 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Ivan Miljenovic wrote: [..] now trying to profile something, oh wait, some problem again. Agreed, if Debian didn't include the profiling libraries with GHC (though is this due to how Debian does packages?). The haskell packages for Debian (I am one) have decided to stick to a pattern where

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-29 Thread Ivan Miljenovic
On 30 March 2010 14:33, Erik de Castro Lopo mle...@mega-nerd.com wrote: The haskell packages for Debian (I am one) You are a Haskell _package_? :p  - The source code package will be called haskell-foo. Is this an actual installable package (so you're installing the actual source code?) ?

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-29 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Ivan Miljenovic wrote: On 30 March 2010 14:33, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: The haskell packages for Debian (I am one) You are a Haskell _package_? :p s/packages/packagers/ Although I speak for me, not the group.  - The source code package will be called haskell-foo. Is this an actual

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-28 Thread Gour
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 23:13:04 -0500 Jeff == Jeff Wheeler j...@nokrev.com wrote: Jeff A bunch of stuff is packaged by dons for Arch; you can see a lot Jeff of links to the Arch packages on Hackage. It might be worth Jeff looking into. +1 for Arch. Sincerely, Gour -- Gour | Hlapicina,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-28 Thread Lakshmi Narasimhan
My choice is latest packages available throug package manager and I use Fedora 12 as of now. Fedora 13 is coming out with ghc 6.12 By the way did you find out any packaged rpms for ghc on Centos? I remember a thread from haskell beginners on this where somebody was trying to get ghc installed on

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-28 Thread Magnus Therning
On 28/03/10 08:50, Gour wrote: On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 23:13:04 -0500 Jeff == Jeff Wheeler j...@nokrev.com wrote: Jeff A bunch of stuff is packaged by dons for Arch; you can see a lot Jeff of links to the Arch packages on Hackage. It might be worth Jeff looking into. +1 for Arch. Add one

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-28 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Sonntag, den 28.03.2010, 09:04 +0100 schrieb Magnus Therning: I have to say it looks like Debian has gotten their act together somewhat when it comes to Haskel development. Many of the reasons for my deserting Debian seem have been taken care of. so, what is missing for you to come

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-28 Thread Ertugrul Soeylemez
Chris Dornan ch...@chrisdornan.com wrote: I am choosing a Linux distribution for a production Haskell project and would would normally just go with Debian (pedigree, stability, and of course Haskell Platfom included) but CentOS is in the frame. Are there any particularly strong reasons for

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-28 Thread Magnus Therning
On 28/03/10 12:53, Joachim Breitner wrote: Hi, Am Sonntag, den 28.03.2010, 09:04 +0100 schrieb Magnus Therning: I have to say it looks like Debian has gotten their act together somewhat when it comes to Haskel development. Many of the reasons for my deserting Debian seem have been taken

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-28 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Magnus Therning wrote: Well, maybe I should qualify that a bit. There were a few issues with Haskell in Debian in the past. Most noticeably the lack of packages in the standard repos. This seems to have been addressed. The other thing, that bit me at the time, and witch really pushed me

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-28 Thread Jason Dusek
2010/03/28 Ertugrul Soeylemez e...@ertes.de However, as always there is a catch.  Gentoo is a source distribution, which means that you compile the entire system from scratch.  On modern computers this is quite fast, but sometimes it can hammer on your patience. To be fair, Gentoo has a