Re: [Haskell-cafe] downloading GHC

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/16/10 12:07 , Ketil Malde wrote:

Brandon S Allbery KF8NH writes:

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Linux users don't have easy binary installers, usually. What can we do about this bootstrapping problem?

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I thought the answer to that was supposed to be "bug your distribution to package the Platform".

In my case, it's more like bug the IT department to get with the times and drop distributions like RHEL and CentOS. And I do try, but to my perpetual chagrin, I'm not always as high on their priority list as I might wish...

There is that, isn't there? And, as one of aforementioned IT department folks (admittedly in a different context) it's not always as high on our priority lists as we might wish, and — worse — we may have our hands tied by someone even higher in the food chain. (I'm going to have to drop gtk2hs here because recent versions are incompatible with the glib (gtk+, oddly, is fine) we have installed on about a third of the machines in the department, and we're *already* failing to get those upgraded to something halfway modern....) - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAky54lcACgkQIn7hlCsL25WifgCgi/sMjBuqXm8jOIcpKnuCIVde meQAoNbbpu2hfAedLqRHmLEZuN66zuN6 =pgJg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----