On 23 Apr 2009, at 5:17 pm, Edward Middleton wrote:
Richard O'Keefe wrote:
The clear impression I've received on this mailing list is that cabal is _also_ for people who are using Haskell and find that there's a new package reported in HWN that they'd like to have. If you are now telling me that I should ignore it because I'm not making distribution packages or Windows installers, fine, just tell me what to use instead.
distribution packages.
OK, please tell me where I can get a distribution package with GHC 6.10 and a *full* set of what's in Hackage for intel Mac OS X 10.5.5 SPARC (Ultra II) Solaris 2.10 that I can use without superuser access. Oh look, http://haskell.org/ghc/distribution_packages.html Mac OS X is there, but not for 10.5. It requires MacPorts, which I've had no luck with. Solaris isn't there at all. At http://haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_6_10_2.html we find that the .tar.bz2 binary for Mac OS X 10.5 "needs libedit.2.dylib, libncurses.5.dylib and libgmp.3.dylib under /opt/local/lib/." Sadly, my /opt/local/lib is empty, and there is nothing I can do about it. (libncurses.5.dylib and libedit.2.dylib are in /usr/lib, which is apparently the place that Apple put them. Why expect to find them in /opt/local/lib? Unpack, try it, nope, it only complains about libgmp.) I'm glad it lets me install ghc wherever I want, if only it let me install the prequisites the same way. I have a colleague who argues against free software every chance he gets. The high cost of installing and maintaining it is one of his main arguments. where