On 4/27/07, Joe Re <jre2@uiuc.edu> wrote:

Perhaps you were installing by tarball because you thought Fedora
doesn't have a recent version of ghc in their repositories?

Exactly. I saw the latest version was very recent, didn't think any FC6 repos woudl have it.
As a matter of fact I wasn't even aware that FC6 repos had ANY haskell compiler in there.

Minor side note: ghc is just one of many (albeit the dominant)
compiler for Haskell. Surely you wouldn't discredit C++ as a language
just because your borland compiler broke? :-)

Don't worry, I wasn't as mad as I sounded. But I'm latin so I wanted to do a big scene so everyone pays attention and fixes this, either in the documentation, in the web page (by making the notice coloured red and <blink>blinking</blink> (joke), or in the ./configure script, or somewhere else.

Thanks to everyone for their replies and respect. I could as well have earned a flame or two, but you were all very cool and polite, which speaks volumes about the quality of the community you guys have here.

FC

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Joseph Re, ACM@UIUC SigNet Chair