Mark Lentczner wrote:
*tl;dr: We'd like to incorporate stack into Haskell Platform, and stop shipping pre-built packages, so we banish cabal hell, and have a single common way to 'get Haskell' that just works.*
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We think this plan solves many different community needs:
- We have a clear way to "get Haskell" that works for a wide variety of use cases. - HP installer gets much smaller, and about as minimal as a working installation can get. - By leaving most packages out of the global database, users of cabal-install, will now have far fewer problems. Sandbox builds should now never give users "cabal hell" like warnings. - By building and installing the Platform packages into it's own package db, users get the benefit of building and installing these common packages only once per system, yet can easily bypass them for any given project if desired. - Since the Platform packages are now built and installed as needed, installing on smaller systems or servers without OpenGL will work.
Sounds great to me! Personally, I do not mind how the Haskell Platform achieves these goals; I will simply adapt to whatever tools the platform happens to install on my machine. Hopefully, they come with suitable documentation. For instance, one thing I don't understand about stack yet is in which location it "magically" installs GHC and packages, and how I can invoke `ghci` from these locations. Somehow, I was unable to understand this from the FAQ. Best regards, Heinrich Apfelmus -- http://apfelmus.nfshost.com