Thanks guys. I must have been a little confused by the difference between platform and GHC. I was reading the Yesod book at the time which I think (probably erroneously) mentions GHC 7.2 alongside recommending Haskell Platform, which does not seem possible.<div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 1:29 AM, Vesa Kaihlavirta <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:vpkaihla@gmail.com">vpkaihla@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Bernardo Barros<br>
&lt;<a href="mailto:bernardobarros2@gmail.com">bernardobarros2@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt; The last release of Haskell Platform has ghc version 7.0.3. There<br>
&gt; is nothing outdated in arch...  You may be referring to the ghc<br>
&gt; 7.2, right? It is not in Haskell Platform yet.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; ── &gt;&gt; pacman -Ss haskell-platform extra/haskell-platform<br>
&gt; 2011.2.0.0-4 [0.00 M] [installed] The Haskell Platform<br>
<br>
</div></div>Yes, that&#39;s the reason why our ghc is lagging so much. In fact, we<br>
have plans to stop supporting the platform mainly for this reason.<br>
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In the near future (hopefully in a month or so), the our extra<br>
repository would only contain the latest stable ghc (currently at<br>
7.2.2) and cabal-install (plus its deps).<br>
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--vk<br>
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