Re: [Freebsd-haskell] GHC 6.12.2 out!!

Gabor PALI writes:

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Ashish SHUKLA wrote:

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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.

Well, they're the bootstrap tarballs, which port downloads and installs temporarily in 'work' directory to bootstrap installation.

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.

Yeah, me too...:) And what about schedule of IRC meetings ? Ashish -- They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin