On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Ian Lynagh
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:55:51AM -0700, Evan Laforge wrote:
There are some issues with the .pkg installer under OS X:
Installers shouldn't be deleting the old version!
This has been a long-standing bug of the OS X installer. We'd love a fix from an OS X installer expert! The framework-pkg target in distrib/MacOS/Makefile is how we build the installer.
solution for this is to have /usr/bin/ghc-a.b.c point to .../GHC.framework/Versions/abc/... instead of ../GHC.framework/Versions/Current/...
Yes, that would make sense, if we could install multiple versions simultaneously.
I'm far from an OS X installer expert, but after some puttering and trial and error I came up with a patch that seems to work. I created http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4354 and attached the patch. The main question is whether or not I can kill Uninstaller, as it's even more broken now than it was before. If yes, I'll attach another patch that removes it. Oh, and I think I may have accidentally sent the patch to cvs@ghc.haskell.org thanks to darcs' auto send thing, ignore that please.