Re: [Haskell-cafe] Minimal Haskell Platform

On 2014年04月16日 09:56, Mikhail Glushenkov wrote:

On 15 April 2014 03:35, Travis Cardwell wrote:

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In a recent /r/haskell post [1], user mightybyte commented:

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This. The Haskell Platform installs a bunch of packages for you in --global. My experience is that this inevitably leads to problems if you're doing significant Haskell development. The best thing to do is to minimize the number of packages installed as --global. The way to do that is to install GHC directly and avoid using the Haskell Platform or Haskell distributions provided by your OS.

The post you quote doesn't provide information about specific problems with this setup. I'd be interested to hear about them.

Personally, I have not run into problems either, as newer versions of packages can be installed into sandboxes. I BCCed the original commenter, to make sure that he is aware of this thread, and I put a request for specific examples of problems in the Reddit discussion: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/23224w/minimal_haskell_platform/ I also asked in #haskell, but nobody who is currently online seems to have examples. Cheers, Travis