Hello Ganesh, On 2014-01-25 at 22:44:44 +0100, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote:
How about just extracting the latest cabal binaries from the Platform after each release and making them available for separate download?
That way there's no extra burden on the cabal or GHC maintainers and no need to solve the general problem of making more frequent cabal binary distributions.
Btw, unless I'm missing something, from http://www.haskell.org/platform/linux.html it doesn't look like there's a binary tar-ball distribution of the HP for Linux in the style of the GHC binary distribution tarballs, from which the executable could be extracted. What's more, the page refers to distribution-specific packages, which potentially lag behind wrt to the latest released HP version, and they don't allow for parallel installs of multiple HP versions (as opposed to the GHC binary tarball distributions) Greetings, hvr