Evan Laforge wrote:
The recent release of ghc 7.10.2 reminded me of something I meant to ask about a long time ago. Most of the binaries ghc installs are versioned (x linked to x-7.10.2), with some exceptions (hpc and hsc2hs). Shouldn't they all be versioned? Also, 'haddock' is inconsistent with all the rest, in that it's haddock linked to haddock-ghc-7.10.2.
I maintaing multiple versions of GHC on all the machines I use regularly for Haskell development. I have: * ghc-7.6.3 installed under /usr/lib/ghc-7.6/ * ghc-7.8.4 installed under /usr/lib/ghc-7.8/ * ghc-7.10.2 installed under /usr/lib/ghc-7.10/ To switch between versions all I need to do is modify $PATH to remove say /usr/lib/ghc-7.6/bin and add /usr/lib/ghc-7.10/bin. This lets me have two terminal window side by side with different versions of GHC. I actually have a shell function to to do this PATH mangling. I can document this more fully if anyone is interested. Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/