The Debian ghc6 package for the stable distribution is currently back at GHC 6.6 - not surprising given the way stable works at Debian. There is currently no backport of a more recent GHC to Debian stable.
I need GHC 6.8 for a project to run on a production server. That means it will be running Debian stable. Unfortunately, the so-called "generic" Linux binary distribution package for GHC 6.8.3 does not work on the current, up-to-date Debian stable distribution because it is "too old". In my case, and I suspect for many people, the production server running stable is on a low-cost hosted VPS. That kind of platform doesn't have nearly enough memory and disk space to compile GHC. So even that is not an option. I know that in the past Haskell was used exclusively for research, but nowadays shouldn't it be possible to use Haskell also for production-quality projects? With help from Igloo and thetallguy on #ghc, for which I am grateful, I was finally able to get a working GHC 6.8.3 on my production server, but only after jumping through a lot of hoops. It involved setting up a Debian-stable-like environment in a chroot on another computer, building GHC there from source, and manually moving all of the appropriate files up to the server. Before I delete that chroot build environment - could it be useful for making GHC 6.8.3 available to others? If someone points me in the right direction, perhaps I could create a binary tarball and/or backport deb. Or at least record somewhere the basic steps of how to get a recent GHC in this situation. Thanks Yitz _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
