On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo
FFT wrote:
I'm still learning Haskell and also evaluating whether I want to use the language in my work.
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For example, I tried installing GHC-6.10.2 on my Ubuntu 8.04 machine (probably the most mainstream Linux these days).
I'm on Ubuntu 8.10 and soon to move to 9.04 and I agree that the standard 6.8.2 compiler on Debian/Ubuntu is a PITA.
In particular, I advise my friends not to install GHC from apt on Debian/Ubuntu because of the way the packages are fractured on those distros. Nothing but problems for casual Haskell hackers. If you know your distro and Haskell well, then sure it's easy to install all the packages that constitute a normal ghc install. For everyone else it's just confusing and frustrating. I've heard that from a distro point of view the split packages are nice and that the solution to my complaint is a proper meta or virtual package. I wonder when we'll get a good haskell virtual package on Debian? Just my $0.02, Jason