
14 Dec
2009
14 Dec
'09
10:11 a.m.
I've the 6.10.4 version installed on my MacOS X 10.6 OS. Have I to uninstall this version of GHC before installing the Mac .pkg for the 6.12.1?
Most installer packages (_except_ for MacOS) allow you to have multiple previous versions of ghc - they are simply left in place (but must now be accessed as e.g. ghc-6.10.4 rather than plan ghc, which now points to the new version). However, there is an unfortunate feature/bug of the MacOS installer packages that they forceably delete any previous versions of ghc that you had on your machine. This is undesirable for many reasons, but as far as I know, it has not yet been fixed. Regards, Malcolm