Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poor first impression

2007-04-29 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 4/29/07, David House <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The fact remains that there is a bug in the build process (configure doesn't check for all the dependencies), and that users have fallen afoul of the bug, so it should be fixed, no matter how well the workaround is documented. -- -David House,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poor first impression

2007-04-28 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 4/27/07, Joe Re <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Perhaps you were installing by tarball because you thought Fedora doesn't have a recent version of ghc in their repositories? Exactly. I saw the latest version was very recent, didn't think any FC6 repos woudl have it. As a matter of fact I wasn'

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poor first impression

2007-04-27 Thread Fernando Cassia
Of course I meant friendliness. Consider English is not my native language. ;) FC On 4/27/07, Fernando Cassia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: situations like this where developers spend more time documenting the problem rather than fixing it with some user-friendlyness in the install

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poor first impression

2007-04-27 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 4/27/07, C.M.Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wow! Such a bitter response! All you need to do is install readline, found here: http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html I think it's unfair to blame GHC for not having readline; the website does indeed tell you about readline:

[Haskell-cafe] Poor first impression

2007-04-27 Thread Fernando Cassia
I admit in shame never having heard about Haskell before. I know about PHP, Python, IBM' s REXX, TCL, TCL/TK, perl... but Haskell, never. So, here's how I landed in Haskell-land: I was looking for a simple ncurses-based text mode mp3 player with some sort of basic GUI and found "HMP3" written in,