[Haskell-cafe] Re: what's the best environment for haskell work?

On Aug 1, 12:40 pm, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:

rustom writes:

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However I do have an issue regarding debian packaging.

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At first I installed ghc This brought in

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ghc6 ghc6-doc libbsd-dev libgmp3-dev libgmpxx4ldbl

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I also added haskell98-report haskell98-tutorial darcs

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Then I discovered haskell-platform. I was pleased to discover that the link took me directly to the squeeze repos so there is no version mismatch between haskell-platorm and squeeze.

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apt-getting haskell-platform gave me

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alex cabal-install happy haskell-platform libghc6-cgi-dev libghc6-deepseq-dev libghc6-glut-dev libghc6-haskell-src-dev libghc6-html-dev libghc6-http-dev libghc6-hunit-dev libghc6-network-dev libghc6-opengl-dev libghc6-parallel-dev libghc6-parsec2-dev libghc6-quickcheck2-dev libghc6-stm-dev libghc6-xhtml-dev

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However when trying to compile ghc from source I got an error that wanted ghc6-prof So I got that

Why are you trying to compile GHC from source if you have a distribution package and are using that?

Well... just stress testing my install but also I am interested in haskell and unicode (squiggol anyone?) so thought I'd muck around a bit in the sources. Maybe premature I guess :-) Actually I started with hugs (because I am a bit familiar with gofer sources) but now that it looks that the most action is on the ghc front I thought I'd look there. As of now I am getting comfortable with ghci inside emacs

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Looking around in synaptic (gui for apt) I find that there are a large number of libghc-somethings that I still have not got.

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So then the question: Whats the real point of the haskell-platform package -- if specific libraries have to be got separately?

That Platform is a "starter kit"; there are way too many Haskell packages available for every distribution to ship all of them!

(Well, it's possible, but infeasible due to the number of packages that are distro/OS specific, are no longer maintained, etc.).