Re: [Haskell-cafe] compiler management for Haskell a la RVM?

2010-03-17 Thread Jason Dusek
2010/03/16 Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH : > On Mar 16, 2010, at 20:59 , Mark Wotton wrote: > > Do we have any similar system for ghc/cabal? I quite > > frequently find myself switching between 6.10 and 6.12 for > > various things, and it's always a bit painful to get your > > environment up to speed. I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] compiler management for Haskell a la RVM?

2010-03-16 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Mar 16, 2010, at 20:59 , Mark Wotton wrote: Do we have any similar system for ghc/cabal? I quite frequently find myself switching between 6.10 and 6.12 for various things, and it's always a bit painful to get your environment up to speed. Is there a golden road for this stuff, or do the c

Re: [Haskell-cafe] compiler management for Haskell a la RVM?

2010-03-16 Thread Marc Weber
I wrote it: It's called Hack-Nix and utilizies the Nix repository manager. I've added a wiki page to haskell.org some time ago. Drawbacks: Right now it doesn't make sense to include all hackage packages because resolving dependencies would never end because its written in Nix language. I can show

[Haskell-cafe] compiler management for Haskell a la RVM?

2010-03-16 Thread Mark Wotton
RVM (at http://rvm.beginrescueend.com) is a rather nice tool for managing multiple ruby installations - it gives support for switching between ruby environments (similar to gcc_select and friends), and also exporting lists of packages so that you can easily bring up a given set of gems in a