Re: [arch-haskell] Installing ghc 6.12

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Tasha Buckley wrote:

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 5:01 AM, Magnus Therning wrote:

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Has anyone gone through the exercise of installing GHC 6.12 on Arch?

Any tips on how to get a well working system?  Would getting haskell-platform out of AUR be enough?  Have the binary packages in [extra] have to be rebuilt as well, or are they already compiled with 6.12?

I've installed 6.12 and have a few things back up and running. Vesa has already pushed xmonad-{contrib} 0.9.1 to extra so you should see it shortly. It's dependencies have already been placed in extra. Hopefully you'll see them in your local mirror soon. I think most binaries that were in extra have been rebuilt, but obviously Vesa is the one who would best know.

Getting the haskell-platform out of the AUR would neither be sufficient nor possible at the moment. First, I don't think anyone has actually decided how to reconcile older packages comprising the platform with the newer updates that would be in the AUR. Secondly, many don't work building directly from hackage because they need to be made compatible with 6.12 in the first place.

Well, what I've seen so far in [extra] on x86-64 hasn't impressed at all. Having to do without stuff like mtl is a bit crippling. Is there a plan to get something "platform-like" in the interim, a single package that would make it easy to get ghc 6.12 as useful as 6.10 was out of the box? /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe