Re: [Haskell-cafe] Self-contained GHC for Mac

On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 08:23:22AM -0400, Bob Hutchison wrote:

On May 23, 2014, at 2:42 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:

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After seeing some demand for packaged Haskell for Mac for the IHaskell project and by word of mouth at BayHac I decided to take a stab at it. Here you go: http://ghcformacosx.github.io/ (currently GHC 7.8.2 and cabal-install 1.20.0.1)

Thank you! Wonderful!

I think this is the way to go for anyone setting up Haskell for the first time on a Mac. I agree that this should be a very prominently displayed installation option on haskell.org

Asking purely out of curiosity: what's the advantage to doing this over using the Haskell Platform installer? (Other than the fact that the latter hasn't seen a release in a year, I mean.) Richard