25 Mar
2015
25 Mar
'15
5:30 a.m.
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 4:09 AM, Simon Peyton Jones
So that was the plan. I still think it’s a good plan. But it clearly is not working well, and I’m hazy about why. Possible reasons:
Possibly relevant is the stackage commentary on HP at http://www.stackage.org/install#why-not-haskell-platform: • On Windows, it does not provide a complete environment (missing MSYS). • By placing a large number of packages in the global package database, Haskell Platform installations are more easily corrupted. • The choice of package versions conflicts with the needs of many commonly used packages. • Some of the package versions included with the platform have known and severe bugs, and cannot be reliably upgraded.