Dear all,
I'm getting more and more worried about Haskell users who
depend on multiple Haskell packages and compilers, but don't
want to follow the cvs developments for all of these packages.
I have the feeling that Haskellers who rely on pre-packaged
binaries are not currently getting a good i
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| Subject: the woes of non-cvs haskellers
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| Dear all,
|
| I'm getting more and m
> To give just one concrete example, what packages do I
> recommend to someone wanting to learn a bit of Haskell, and
> do some graphics and perhaps windowing, on Windows?
>
> - Hugs (Winhugs bug in current binary release, so better avoid
> that and use plain Hugs?)
> - HGL (does it wo
>It's been a rough ride in a few ways recently. But let me try to
>explain our policy and why it's a good compromise, and hopefully this
>will shed some light on why there might be problems going from GHC 6.0.1
>to 6.2, for example.
just to clarify:
- I'm not complaining about your or anyone els
Hi Claus.
| A broader approach would be to try and show a united Haskell
| tools front to the general Haskeller: Identify a core set of Haskell
| tools (the above four would be my initial suggestion), and make
| sure that the latest binary releases for these are always in synch
| with each other.
> Towards the end of last year I started experimenting with
> modified "nightly"
> build scripts to build in one fell swoop ghc (and it's
> libraries), alex,
> happy, greencard and hdirect.
>
> I backed off for three reasons, one was other tasks, the
> second was that I
> felt I was possibly g
[hugs-bugs removed from cc, this seems focussed on GHC?]
> Towards the end of last year I started experimenting with modified "nightly"
> build scripts to build in one fell swoop ghc (and it's libraries), alex,
> happy, greencard and hdirect.
|Speaking from a GHC standpoint, your efforts were/are
Hi all.
| Speaking from a GHC standpoint, your efforts were/are greatly
| appreciated.
Thanks - Didn't intend to sound Sad Sack there!
| > Modulo bugs (I can only test on Windows and syncing the
| > Hdirect libraries
| > with the GHC-inplace version, rather than the version of the bootstrap
| >
