Thomas Davie wrote:
> Are you sure that you're finding things that are unavailable in
> 6.8.2?
Specifically the things I found missing in just the last couple of
hours are:
- module Text.Regex.Posix
- functions readProcess/readProcessWithExitCode from System.Process
- function exitSuccess from System.Exit
> There's been very little change to the APIs exposed to
> beginners since then.
I must admit I am jumping in at the deep end, but I do have 4 years of
pretty extensive Ocaml coding under my belt.
> It may be that you're not importing the module
> required
Haskell's modules are quite similar to Ocaml's but I'm pretty confident
I have this under control.
> Sorry if I just taught my granny to suck eggs.
I'm not your granny :-)
> If you are doing this
> and really are coming up against APIs that aren't in 6.8, then yes,
> you need to upgrade your compiler.
I'll take that as an ACK.
> There's no real disadvantage to
> doing this though, except possibly that you lose support for one or
> two libraries that are taking a while to update (gtk2hs springs to
> mind).
Ouch. I'm pretty attached to the debian packaging system on my Debian
and Ubuntu systems and really don't like to install non-packaged
binaries or source. On top of that I like to use existing libraries
whereever possible and that means installing these from source as
well.
I might have to look into cabal-debian.
Cheers,
Erik
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