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

I can confirm that, although before Ubuntu Feisty came out I just compiled GHC 6.6 myself. I was surprised how easy it was -- I had heard building GHC was hard, but I guess that's only if you don't already have a Haskell compiler. I expect I'll probably be compiling the newest version myself again once the features I'm missing out on become important enough to me. --Grady Lemoine On 4/22/07, Ryan Dickie wrote:

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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