Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-28 Thread Ketil Malde
Chris Dornan ch...@chrisdornan.com writes: I am choosing a Linux distribution for a production Haskell project and would would normally just go with Debian I think Debian (I use Ubuntu, which inherits its packages) just got a lot better. I upgraded to 10.4 Lucid, and now I have ghc 6.12.1 and

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-28 Thread Jason Dagit
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Chris Dornan ch...@chrisdornan.com wrote: Hi, I am choosing a Linux distribution for a production Haskell project and would would normally just go with Debian (pedigree, stability, and of course Haskell Platfom included) but CentOS is in the frame. Are

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-28 Thread Mathijs Kwik
As a developer in 3 languages (ruby java professionally, haskell as hobby) I must say I really prefer just managing this manually, separate from the package manager. I'm running ubuntu LTS (8.04) on production servers. I don't want to upgrade a server OS every 6 months, so I really like the more

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-28 Thread Chris Dornan
: haskell-cafe-boun...@haskell.org [mailto:haskell-cafe-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Mathijs Kwik Sent: 28 March 2010 5:13 AM To: haskell-cafe@haskell.org Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution As a developer in 3 languages (ruby java professionally, haskell as hobby) I must

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-28 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Mathijs Kwik wrote: As a developer in 3 languages (ruby java professionally, haskell as hobby) I must say I really prefer just managing this manually, separate from the package manager. I'm running ubuntu LTS (8.04) on production servers. But this would mean that an environment for a

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-27 Thread Chris Dornan
Hi, I am choosing a Linux distribution for a production Haskell project and would would normally just go with Debian (pedigree, stability, and of course Haskell Platfom included) but CentOS is in the frame. Are there any particularly strong reasons for preferring or avoiding any particular

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-27 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Chris Dornan ch...@chrisdornan.com wrote: Are there any particularly strong reasons for preferring or avoiding any particular distribution? A bunch of stuff is packaged by dons for Arch; you can see a lot of links to the Arch packages on Hackage. It might be

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-27 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Jeff Wheeler j...@nokrev.com writes: On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Chris Dornan ch...@chrisdornan.com wrote: Are there any particularly strong reasons for preferring or avoiding any particular distribution? A bunch of stuff is packaged by dons for Arch; you can see a lot of links to the