Brandon Allbery writes:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 4:27 AM, Ben Gamari wrote:
>
>> Just to be clear, at the moment Homebrew has no Haskell Platform
>> packaging.
>>
>
> I should probably mention that the most likely reason for this is that they
> had problems packaging ghc 7.8 (which is why the g
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 4:27 AM, Ben Gamari wrote:
> Just to be clear, at the moment Homebrew has no Haskell Platform
> packaging.
>
I should probably mention that the most likely reason for this is that they
had problems packaging ghc 7.8 (which is why the ghcformacosx repo was
created) and rat
Mark Lentczner writes:
> A known pitfall for all is that the OS X native installer package, and
> MacPorts build with different install paths, and different library
> assumptions. I don't know if Homebrew does it yet differently or is the
> same as MacPorts.
>
Just to be clear, at the moment Home
Mark Lentczner writes:
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
>
>> Can we have the platform-description-via-cabal-file back? That made it
>> easy to use cabal-to-Portfile tooling,
>>
>
> ? It never left? Only now the haskell-platform.cabal is a built file, not
> directly in the
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 11:30 PM, Mark Lentczner
wrote:
> A known pitfall for all is that the OS X native installer package, and
> MacPorts build with different install paths, and different library
> assumptions. I don't know if Homebrew does it yet differently or is the
> same as MacPorts.
>
Tha
A known pitfall for all is that the OS X native installer package, and
MacPorts build with different install paths, and different library
assumptions. I don't know if Homebrew does it yet differently or is the
same as MacPorts.
This is a constant source of difficultly for users that unwittingly mo
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> Can we have the platform-description-via-cabal-file back? That made it
> easy to use cabal-to-Portfile tooling,
>
? It never left? Only now the haskell-platform.cabal is a built file, not
directly in the repo. See the source tar ball distr
Brandon Allbery writes:
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Ben Gamari wrote:
>
>> Do we have a plan for offering Haskell Platform packaging via MacPorts
>> or Homebrew? Some users regard these systems as Linux users
>> regard their distribution's package manager: they should be used if at
>> all
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Ben Gamari wrote:
> Do we have a plan for offering Haskell Platform packaging via MacPorts
> or Homebrew? Some users regard these systems as Linux users
> regard their distribution's package manager: they should be used if at
> all possible. To quote a friend of m