Ian Lynagh:
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 12:56:00PM -0800, Mark Lentczner wrote:
Outstanding question is what should this framework be called? I would like to continue to call it GHC.framework, but change the version to something like 7.0.1+HP-i386,
I think it ought to be called Haskell-Platform.framework.
The GHC.framework inside the Haskell Platform should still be the GHC.framework. The rest of the Haskell Platform might be in a different framework (or further, more specific frameworks identifying the individual components inside). A Mac OS X framework is *not* a unit of distribution. It is more like a library with associated meta data and tools. You wouldn't rename glibc to, say, ubuntulibc just because you happen to get it via an Ubuntu install.
[*] The binary GHC distribution could be - built by the GHC team, and asking them for a tarball (as Duncan suggested)
I do "make framework-pkg" to build the OS X installer, but it's essentially a black box to me. We're happy to accept patches that make this also produce a bindist, though.
Now that we have the Haskell Platform, perhaps we should stop making GHC OS X installers, and only make plain old unix bindists.
Especially given that the Haskell Platform is released many months after GHC, please keep making GHC OS X installers. At the very least, that will lead to more GHC installs and *testing* on OS X between the GHC release and Haskell Platform release. Manuel