22 Apr
2010
22 Apr
'10
6:15 a.m.
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Ashish SHUKLA
Bootstrap tarballs, you meant ?
No. Tarballs similar to Linux ones on the official home page. This way early adopters on FreeBSD can experiment with GHC 6.12.2 without requiring them to do the necessary compilation manually. Obviously this will not include dependency checking as it is not a fully-fledged port, but it can be used without special permissions. It is different from a bootstrap tarball since it will include profiled libraries, pre-built documentation etc, though it can be used as a bootstrap. I would be happy to see a lang/ghc-devel port featuring GHC 6.12, so it can be taken as a step towards that. Cheers, :g