Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.0.1 Release Candidate 1

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 04:56:18PM -0700, Evan Laforge wrote:

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Ian Lynagh wrote:

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On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:55:51AM -0700, Evan Laforge wrote:

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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.

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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.

Great, thanks!

I created http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4354 and attached the patch.

We now have a mixture of org.haskell.ghc and org.haskell.GHC Is that deliberate, or should I lowercase them all?

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.

I'd prefer to fix it, if possible. Is there anything magic about the name, or could we have Uninstaller-7.0.1 etc? Thanks Ian