Thanks to you both.
mailinglists (such as cafe — look, it worked!)
I'm totally sold on this new-fangled mailing list thing. It's like slack for adults who like to shuffle at their own pace.
Not thorough enough I say, as a sworn enemy.
I'm not really - I was kind of glad when they installed Haskell Platform
with batteries so I could prove a point, if only to myself, that stack was
the better choice, but it's been smooth sailing except for this one bug.
I've been able to install everything I need, how I need it. I imagine
there's a system ghc out there somewhere, but it's benign to my workflow.
I think I unfairly identify HP with cabal hell, and then the flashbacks
trigger.
On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 5:50 PM, Gershom B
On September 27, 2016 at 3:37:40 AM, Tony Day (tonyday567@gmail.com) wrote:
I even have a current bug falling somewhere between the platform and stack - something crashed looking for the standard linux command line tools - was it the msys2 or mingw in platform, or was it stack? Where do I even turn for help?
This patch should fix the issue if it is what I think it is. But the patch is not in a release yet :-/
https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/pull/2552
One workaround is suggested on an associated ticket: https://github.com/ commercialhaskell/stack/issues/1714
Another workaround as I understand it is to just invoke stack always with --no-system-ghc for now.
As to where to turn for help, I think the usual sources all would work — irc, slack, mailinglists (such as cafe — look, it worked!), stackoverflow, etc.
Hope this helps, Gershom