Announce: second alpha release of OSX haskell platform installer

Hi all,
The second build of the OSX installer is now available for limited
testing:
http://gregorycollins.net/static/haskell/haskell-platform-2009.2.0.1-alpha2....
Apparently this one actually works. Big thanks to Simon Michael for
helping me debug the installer issue -- haddock depends on ghc-paths,
which wasn't in the haskell-platform.cabal list. I ended up just
removing haddock from the installer since it's included with GHC.
A before-and-after from Simon on a fresh GHC install:
http://gist.github.com/123233
If nobody finds any issues with this version of the installer, I'll
bundle up a .dmg file for release.
G.
--
Gregory Collins

Installed successfully on my machine.
Thanks very much for your work,
- C.C.
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Gregory Collins
Hi all,
The second build of the OSX installer is now available for limited testing:
http://gregorycollins.net/static/haskell/haskell-platform-2009.2.0.1-alpha2....
Apparently this one actually works. Big thanks to Simon Michael for helping me debug the installer issue -- haddock depends on ghc-paths, which wasn't in the haskell-platform.cabal list. I ended up just removing haddock from the installer since it's included with GHC.
A before-and-after from Simon on a fresh GHC install:
If nobody finds any issues with this version of the installer, I'll bundle up a .dmg file for release.
G. -- Gregory Collins
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On Jun 3, 2009, at 10:54 PM, Gregory Collins wrote:
The second build of the OSX installer is now available for limited testing:
http://gregorycollins.net/static/haskell/haskell-platform-2009.2.0.1-alpha2....
Apparently this one actually works. [...] If nobody finds any issues with this version of the installer, I'll bundle up a .dmg file for release.
It failed on my machine (Mac Book with OS X 10.5.7, ghc-6.10.1) with the following error: "The following install step failed: run post install step for OpenGL-2.2.1.1. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance." 'ghc --version' and 'ghc-pkg list' do not show different output before and after the (failed) install. Cheers, Sebastian -- Underestimating the novelty of the future is a time-honored tradition. (D.G.)

Gregory Collins
The second build of the OSX installer is now available for limited testing:
http://gregorycollins.net/static/haskell/haskell-platform-2009.2.0.1-alpha2....
I'm on a PowerPC G5, running MacOS 10.4.11. The installer fails with the simple message: Open Failed Couldn't open "haskell-platform-2009.2.0.1-alpha2.pkg". This package type requires Mac OS X 10.5. Regards, Malcolm

Malcolm Wallace
Gregory Collins
wrote: The second build of the OSX installer is now available for limited testing:
http://gregorycollins.net/static/haskell/haskell-platform-2009.2.0.1-alpha2....
I'm on a PowerPC G5, running MacOS 10.4.11. The installer fails with the simple message:
Hi Malcolm,
The platform installer currently only supports MacOS Leopard on Intel,
sorry. (I don't have a G4/G5 machine with Tiger to do the build on.)
G
--
Gregory Collins
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Christos Chryssochoidis
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Gregory Collins
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Malcolm Wallace
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Sebastian Fischer