Re: [Haskell-cafe] Is there a best *nix or BSD distro for Haskell hacking?

If you opt for ubuntu, have a look at http://groups.google.de/group/fa.haskell/browse_thread/thread/e63e73e7fc9e96c2/be76e381f8c33f39?lnk=st&q=%22haskell+cafe%22+%22Trouble+trying+to+find+packages+for+ubuntu+linux%22&rnum=1&hl=en#be76e381f8c33f39 This little hack enabled me to do a sort of "one shot install" for all the haskell packages available for feisty, although I was running dapper ("long term support") ubuntu. This meant a lot less dependency chasing when I wanted to install something nonstandard, or with nonstandard dependencies, eg HApps. (nota bene, I think the issue of dependency chasing should hopefully cease to matter when the cabal developers figure out how to do that during an install.) thomas. 2007/4/22, Ryan Dickie :

I'm running feisty. ryan@0pt1mu5:~$ ghc --version The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.6

--ryan

On 4/22/07, Dougal Stanton wrote:

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On 22/04/07, Ryan Dickie wrote:

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Many of the haskell packages including darcs, ghc, and well over 100 other packages (mostly libraries) are in the package manager ready to be installed.

The problem with Ubuntu (at least until the Feisty release a few days ago?) was that GHC wasn't up-to-date by default; it came with 6.4. Moving to 6.6 isn't a difficult feat (the generic binaries from the GHC site seem to work fine for Edgy, if you install libreadline too) but being behind that curve is noticeable. If you want to stay on the cutting edge Gentoo takes a lot of the hassle out of it, since you can use the repository stored on haskell.org. The downside is having to keep the rest of the system updated if you've got a slow machine.

You pays your money, etc.

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