10 Jun
2011
10 Jun
'11
1:41 p.m.
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 09:51 +0000, Johannes Waldmann wrote:
here's what I usually do: * install ghc from binary package, * build haskell-platform from source. * when necessary, get more recent haskell packages via cabal
Yes, this is definitely the way to go. You want to have the Haskell Platform as a well-defined baseline build environment, and you want to use cabal to manage your development libraries, not apt/dpkg. While cabal isn't perfect, it at least handles a lot more Haskell-specific issues -- like the need to build some libraries against specific versions or flags of other libraries, hashing version configurations, and so on -- that apt/dpkg just doesn't have the Haskell-specific knowledge to deal with. -- Chris Smith