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

I've tried doing haskell projects on fedora ubuntu and gentoo and gentoo was by far the best supported. -Dan On 4/22/07, David Cabana wrote:

I'm not dissing Windows; I work with it all the time, just not for Haskell. On the other hand, I am writing this on my Powerbook.

My desire to use linux is mostly aesthetic. I want to go mouse free (I'm thinking Xmonad), and neither Windows nor OS X naturally lends itself to that. With respect to choice of linux, the machine I have in mind is not terribly fast, so I prefer to install from binaries rather than source. Do Debian and Ubuntu provide more or less the same Haskell packages?

On Apr 22, 2007, at 10:09 AM, Neil Mitchell wrote:

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Hi David,

At the risk of getting into an OS war, its perfectly feasible to develop Haskell on Windows. Some Haskell applications are only available for Windows (WinHugs mainly), but you are likely to have a less bumpy ride compiling GHC if you aren't on Windows.

Pick what you want, Gentoo and Debian are both quite well supported for Haskell.

Thanks

Neil

On 4/22/07, David Cabana wrote:

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I have a spare Windows machine I want to put to better use. I want to turn it into a Haskell hacking box, and was wondering whether any particular *nix or BSD distribution is best (or worst) suited for this. Any thoughts?

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