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

2010-03-27 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Chris Dornan 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 worth looking into.

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

2010-03-27 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Jeff Wheeler writes: > On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Chris Dornan 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 mi

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

2010-03-28 Thread Ketil Malde
"Chris Dornan" 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 a lot of librarie

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

2010-03-28 Thread Jason Dagit
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Chris Dornan 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 there any p

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
From: 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

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 fo