24 Sep
2008
24 Sep
'08
1:56 p.m.
The advantage is ghci works without editline and readline. The disadvantage is if you want arrow keys and backspace to work, you should have installed http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/ first. libedit on Debian is very out-dated[1]. Haskell bindings (editline) doesn't compile against it (at least I could not compile it).
There was also no working libedit for mingw last time I checked (shelarcy was working on a patch at the time - did that work out?). Would it be possible to use haskeline as a fallback/default, for future Ghc's? http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/haskeline Claus