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

On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:

On Monday, May 26, 2014, Bob Hutchison wrote:

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On May 26, 2014, at 9:08 AM, Richard Cobbe wrote:

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

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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.)

That’s a pretty good reason :-)

Have a look at this thread “Minimal Haskell Platform” https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/haskell-cafe/-MrmFsyq-FM for a lot of discussion. There have been other threads in various mailing lists touching on this recently.

In addition to that, you can only have one Haskell Platform install and you need admin to install it. With this, you don't need admin and can have as many "installs" as you want (although it won't save you from .ghc or .cabal hell).

I have three platforms installed. As long as they have different GHC versions, there's no problem, I think. Should I be aware of something? Erik