Hi Marc,

Great, thanks for the pointer. I'll take a look at nix, that might be an option. Thanks for the offer of server space too, but I'd really like to get it going on my own space since I have domains and whatnot pointed there.

I also realise that the IDE support isn't there - it's even worse, I use IntelliJ rather than Eclipse which is positively magical at times. Something similar for a language like Haskell would be amazing.

Thanks for the advice!

Cheers,
Colin

2008/10/6 Marc Weber <marco-oweber@gmx.de>

Hi Colin,

I only know about one other option:
Try user mode linux / qemu / anotehr virtualziing software and setup the
environment within that which you need... :-(
Another thing you could try is installing nix (nixos.org) (software
distirbution
system).. It bootstraps current ghc via ghc-6.4.2 from binaries / source
automatically (Don't think older compilers are supported than 6.4.x) but
you'll get a complete copy of each system lib within the store
direcotry. So you need some disk space. And I can't guarantee that it
works out of the box.. (it works with 2.6.9 kernel.. don't know about
older ones)

If all you want to do is toying around I can give you an ssh account to
my server which has ghc installed.
Anyway be prepared that there is no IDE support coming close to what
Eclipse provides for the Java language..

Sincerly
Marc
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