On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 6:26 AM, Adrian May <adrian.alexander....@gmail.com>wrote:
> So WASH is ancient history. OK, lets forget it. > > How about the Haskell Platform? Is that ancient history? Certainly not: it > doesn't compile on anything but the very newest GHC. Not 7.4.1 but 7.4.2. > GHC is up to 7.6. > Now that's rapid maintenance, but it's still version hell because you've > got to have that compiler installed first (even though HP is supposed to be > a way to acquire haskell) and you probably haven't. You've probably got the > one from the linux package which hasn't been maintained since, ooh, must > have been at least a week ago, so you install the new one and you've > trashed cabal. How long is that puzzle gonna take to unravel? > About 12 seconds, if you read http://www.haskell.org/platform/linux.html: Download the source tarball for Unix-like systems: here - *haskell-platform-2012.4.0.0.tar.gz<http://lambda.haskell.org/platform/download/2012.4.0.0/haskell-platform-2012.4.0.0.tar.gz> * - SHA-1: 7976508c50305969f64c721a1d095ae22efff8b7 Get and install GHC 7.4.2 prior to building the platform: - GHC 7.4.2 <http://haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_7_4_2.html> Finally, unpack the Haskell Platform source tarball, and run (possibly with 'sudo'): ./configure make make install
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