On 9/23/07, Isaac Dupree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bulat Ziganshin wrote: > > Hello David, > > > > Sunday, September 23, 2007, 10:28:41 PM, you wrote: > > > >> Let's say I have more than one Haskell implementation on my computer, > >> e.g. GHC 6.6, GHC 6.7, and Hugs. (In MacPorts, these are the ghc, > >> ghc-devel, and hugs packages, respectively.) > > > >> Let's further say that I want to install the Edison API package. > >> Obviously, to get make it available in all three environments, the > >> library needs to be compiled twice and installed three times. > > > > :) it should be compiled three times, too. different ghc versions has > > been never intended to be binary-compatible > > I thought so at first, too... after a minute I realized it probably > means that Hugs doesn't _compile_ anything in advance of installation. > So I guess the number is right at least, depending what "compile" is > taken to mean.
I meant compilation in the sense of producing object code. Of course, you still have to build the code for hugs (preprocessing and such), so I guess the fact that you aren't actually compiling the code is irrelevant. My point was that I'm not aware of any packaging systems that don't have a global "installed"/"not installed" bit for each package, which isn't suited to handling Haskell libraries. -- Dave Menendez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.eyrie.org/~zednenem/> _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
