Congrats to Mandrake

[Duncan Coutts]

All,

I think that Mandrake deserve thanks for (reasonably) consistently including 
both hugs and ghc in their Linux distro *as standard*. This could 
significantly help Haskell takeup amongst the unwashed masses. :-)

There should probably be a link on the ghc download page to the mdk binaries.
The hugs download page just links directly to the mdk rpmfind pages.

http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=ghc&submit=Search+...&system=mandrake&arch=

http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/cooker/contrib/RPMS/ghc-5.02.2-2mdk.i586.html

Duncan
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Re: Congrats to Mandrake

[Jesper Louis Andersen]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 05:26:59PM +, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> both hugs and ghc in their Linux distro *as standard*. This could 
> significantly help Haskell takeup amongst the unwashed masses. :-)

Well, same applies for FreeBSD.

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Re: Congrats to Mandrake

[Jim Farrand]

On Tuesday 19 February 2002 17:30, you wrote:

> > both hugs and ghc in their Linux distro *as standard*. This could
> > significantly help Haskell takeup amongst the unwashed masses. :-)
> Well, same applies for FreeBSD.

And Debian.
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Re: Congrats to Mandrake

[Duncan Coutts]

Jim Farrand  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> > both hugs and ghc in their Linux distro *as standard*. This could
>> > significantly help Haskell takeup amongst the unwashed masses. :-)
>> Well, same applies for FreeBSD.

> And Debian.

So what I mean is, can we have links to more binaries than just Red Hat?
Debian, Mandrake, FreeBSD. (I know these's SuSE)

It may just seem like clutter on the download page but it would help users and 
as much as anything else it shows some apreciation for the packagers who track 
the releases so well.

my $0.02

Duncan
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Re: Congrats to Mandrake

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 10:13:07PM +, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> So what I mean is, can we have links to more binaries than just Red Hat?
> Debian, Mandrake, FreeBSD. (I know these's SuSE)

NetBSD has several Haskell-related things in there.

On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 10:13:07PM +, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> It may just seem like clutter on the download page but it would help users 
> and as much as anything else it shows some apreciation for the packagers 
> who track the releases so well.

=)

Cheers,
Bill
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Re: Congrats to Mandrake

[Ashley Yakeley]

At 2002-02-19 14:13, Duncan Coutts wrote:

>So what I mean is, can we have links to more binaries than just Red Hat?
>Debian, Mandrake, FreeBSD. (I know these's SuSE)

Seconded. If someone would do a 5.02.2 deb, that would be very useful...


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Re: Congrats to Mandrake

[Jens Petersen]

Duncan Coutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I think that Mandrake deserve thanks for (reasonably)
> consistently including both hugs and ghc in their Linux
> distro *as standard*.

While all praise goes to Mandrake (and pixel in particular)
for distributing hugs and ghc, I would just like to point
out that unlike hugs, ghc is only in Mandrake contrib (and
cooker), not in the official distro.

Jens
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Re: Congrats to Mandrake

[Ketil Z. Malde]

Ashley Yakeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> At 2002-02-19 14:13, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> 
>> So what I mean is, can we have links to more binaries than just Red Hat?
>> Debian, Mandrake, FreeBSD. (I know these's SuSE)

> Seconded.

I'm not sure what the point would be, if they are in the
distributions anyway?  Isn't it better to install them by apt-get or
up2date or whatever?  (In fact, I had almost thought manually
downloading packages a thing of the past, but then the IT department
insisted on Red Hat)

-kzm
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Re: Congrats to Mandrake

[Ashley Yakeley]

At 2002-02-20 00:19, Ketil Z. Malde wrote:

>I'm not sure what the point would be, if they are in the
>distributions anyway?

Actually for me I'm more interested in someone keeping up with the GHC 
versions with debs. I'm not so worried about where they put them.

But actually I just noticed that 5.02.2 is in Debian sid. Thanks to 
Michael Weber for doing this...

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RE: Congrats to Mandrake

[Simon Marlow]

> Jim Farrand  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> > both hugs and ghc in their Linux distro *as standard*. This could
> >> > significantly help Haskell takeup amongst the unwashed 
> masses. :-)
> >> Well, same applies for FreeBSD.
> 
> > And Debian.
> 
> So what I mean is, can we have links to more binaries than 
> just Red Hat?
> Debian, Mandrake, FreeBSD. (I know these's SuSE)
> 
> It may just seem like clutter on the download page but it 
> would help users and 
> as much as anything else it shows some apreciation for the 
> packagers who track 
> the releases so well.

Oops!  Looks like I added the FreeBSD packages to my local copy of the
web pages and forgot to copy it up to the web site.  Sorry about that.

I'll add links to the Mandrake packages while I'm there.

Could someone who is Debian-compliant tell me where I should be pointing
for Debian packages?

Cheers,
Simon
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RE: Congrats to Mandrake

[Lauri Alanko]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 01:37:52PM -, Simon Marlow wrote:
> Could someone who is Debian-compliant tell me where I should be pointing
> for Debian packages?

http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/ghc5/

Though of course any debian user should just be able to say "apt-get install
ghc5" to get the latest package from the nearest mirror...


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Re: Congrats to Mandrake

[Albert Lai]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ketil Z. Malde) writes:

> I'm not sure what the point would be, if they are in the
> distributions anyway?  Isn't it better to install them by apt-get or
> up2date or whatever?  (In fact, I had almost thought manually
> downloading packages a thing of the past, but then the IT department
> insisted on Red Hat)

If I, a developer, wrote a program, and some distributions included it
(while others didn't), I would want to acknowledge and thank them in
public.

If I, a potential customer choosing among Linux distributions, liked
to use a program, and I saw on the program home page that so-and-so
distributions included the program, I would arrange my preference
accordingly.

If I, an absent-minded user, heard about some great program from my
friends, and saw on the program home page which distributions included
it, I might realize "Gosh, *my* distribution CD already has it!" and
save some download and install effort.  Remember, I am absent-minded,
so I wouldn't know what's on my CD unless someone stick it on my
face. :)

I probably don't need hyperlinks; I just need to know if my
distribution includes it or not.
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Re: Congrats to Mandrake

[Dylan Thurston]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 03:45:15PM +0200, Lauri Alanko wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 01:37:52PM -, Simon Marlow wrote:
> > Could someone who is Debian-compliant tell me where I should be pointing
> > for Debian packages?
> 
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/ghc5/
> 
> Though of course any debian user should just be able to say "apt-get install
> ghc5" to get the latest package from the nearest mirror...

Better:

http://packages.debian.org/testing/devel/ghc5.html
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/ghc5.html

--Dylan Thurston



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Re: Congrats to Mandrake

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

Tue, 19 Feb 2002 18:55:55 +, Jim Farrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pisze:

>> > both hugs and ghc in their Linux distro *as standard*. This could
>> > significantly help Haskell takeup amongst the unwashed masses. :-)
>> Well, same applies for FreeBSD.
> 
> And Debian.

And PLD .

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