sounds good to me. where can I find the list of packages (or whatever they call them in homebrew, formula?) available? On 12 August 2010 11:49, Benedict Eastaugh wrote:

On 11 August 2010 15:49, Ozgur Akgun wrote:

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Personally, I'd like to use the macports version, if the ghc version there was resonably recent (having 2 versions, a stable and an edge could be a good idea?)

You could use Homebrew instead. That has a fairly up-to-date version of GHC and the Haskell Platform.

http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/

-- Ozgur Akgun

On 12 Aug 2010, at 12:49, Benedict Eastaugh wrote:

On 11 August 2010 15:49, Ozgur Akgun wrote:

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Personally, I'd like to use the macports version, if the ghc version there was resonably recent (having 2 versions, a stable and an edge could be a good idea?)

You could use Homebrew instead. That has a fairly up-to-date version of GHC and the Haskell Platform.

http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/

On http://wiki.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/installation it says: delete /usr/local/include and/usr/local/lib So its not for those that also installs standard distributions, it seems. But what's wrong with the binaries listed here: http://haskell.org/ghc/ Fairly easy to install.

On 12 Aug 2010, at 14:08, Ozgur Akgun wrote:

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On http://wiki.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/installation it says: delete /usr/local/include and/usr/local/lib So its not for those that also installs standard distributions, it seems.

I thought this was just a recommendation.

It also says: We’ve had a *lot* of bug reports that are first inexplicable and later it turns out that it’s because the user has some of their own libs and headers in/usr/local.

On 12 Aug 2010, at 20:46, Gaius Hammond wrote:

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its not for those that also installs standard distributions, it seems.

But what's wrong with the binaries listed here: http://haskell.org/ghc/ Fairly easy to install.

Yes and no; on OSX 10.5.8 it works better to install GHC from the binary then build Platform yourself. On 10.6 it seems to be OK.

OK. I was only thinking on the compiler (as in the first post). When adding packages, it is trickier; I've only by hand. Then in some case MacPorts might be better if wanting to do a lot of package chasing - perhaps it was Gtk.