El vie, 02-04-2010 a las 10:50 -0500, aditya siram escribió:
BTW I know that other people on this list differ but I think installing any Haskell-related packages using apt-get is a bad idea. Cabal is so easy that it makes apt-get obsolete.
hth, -deech
Although I now download and install ghc, and ghc related code, compile and install, and later use cabal exclusively, the advantages of using apt-get ('aptitude', really) were quite evident in the past: - Not too long ago, cabal-installing was by default user-specific, while the manual 'runhaskell Setup.(hs|lhs) install' was system-wide. This caused many problems. - The previously stated issue caused hellish nightmares to beginners when uninstalling some haskell-related package. This was very simple when using apt-get (although it sometimes posed it difficulties, relating crossed dependencies). - (omni)present difference: cabal downloads and compiles code... this means you have to (apt-get )install dev libraries... a lot of them, for some fresh systems (like Ubuntu) which are clearly not oriented toward this task. Presently cabal is much simpler to use... or perhaps it is I who has learned to master its configuration. 'stow' has helped greatly.