Many choices were suggested! For now, I have decided to go with stow.
I installed 3 versions of GHC in /usr/local/stow, and installed
cabal-install locally (i.e. to my home directory), built with ghc
6.12.1. I'm not sure that this is the best way to go about this, but
it's what I'm working with
On 2010-04-13 15:08, Dave Bayer wrote:
Why not just use symbolic links?
When using stow I am just using symbolic links (and directories), except
that I don't need to create them all manually, and I can remove all of
them with a single command. I don't need to modify my PATH.
I only believe in
> Why not just use symbolic links? I too have multiple installations of ghc
> (at the moment, only two), and I choose between them using a symbolic link:
>
> book % ls -l /usr/local | grep ghc
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel10 Jan 12 00:05 ghc -> ghc-6.12.1
> drwxr-xr-x 7 dave wheel 238 Dec 2
On Apr 13, 2010, at 9:19 AM, Nils Anders Danielsson wrote:
> On 2010-04-12 22:28, Bradford Larsen wrote:
>> 2. If I cannot install multiple ghc versions from a different apt
>> repository, does anyone have advice for how to work with multiple
>> simultaneous installations? A how-to guide or any
On 2010-04-12 22:28, Bradford Larsen wrote:
2. If I cannot install multiple ghc versions from a different apt
repository, does anyone have advice for how to work with multiple
simultaneous installations? A how-to guide or anything like that?
I install GHC under /usr/local/stow/ghc-/ by usin
> I would like to have several versions of ghc installed simultaneously,
> on the handful of Ubuntu systems I work on. In the past, I have had
> just a single version of ghc installed on each system, usually the
> most recent stable generic Linux binary installation.
>
I just recently announced m
Excerpts from Bradford Larsen's message of Mon Apr 12 23:28:53 +0200 2010:
> I would like to have several versions of ghc installed simultaneously,
> on the handful of Ubuntu systems I work on. In the past, I have had
> just a single version of ghc installed on each system, usually the
> most rece
I would like to have several versions of ghc installed simultaneously,
on the handful of Ubuntu systems I work on. In the past, I have had
just a single version of ghc installed on each system, usually the
most recent stable generic Linux binary installation.
Three questions:
1. Does there exi
