Re: Setting a timetable

2011-12-05 Thread Daniel Peebles
Just out of curiosity, why can't the next HP run off of GHC 7.2.something instead of 7.something? I know people keep saying 7.2 was intended as a "feature preview" but it all seems fairly well tested and working now, and 7.4 has also added a pile of more new untested features that weren't in 7.2.

Re: packaging options for Mac OS X

2010-11-28 Thread Daniel Peebles
Mac OS supports .mpkg packages that can bundle together multiple .pkg files and install them in one go. Not sure about the user experience, but given that we currently get two .pkg files, it seems like it'd be pretty trivial to bundle them into one .mpkg without changing the generation scripts for

haskell.org/platform redirect

2009-09-22 Thread Daniel Peebles
Hi all, I just thought I'd let everyone know that http://haskell.org/platform has been set up as a redirect to the hackage.haskell.org/platform URL, for those of us too lazy to type or say the hackage at the beginning! Dan ___ Haskell-platform mailing

Re: [Fwd: OSX installer -- first draft]

2009-06-03 Thread Daniel Peebles
>> Is this a universal binary, or Intel-only? > > Intel-only, I believe :(.  I have no idea how I'd even begin to build > universal binaries for this stuff, nor do I have a non-intel machine to > build it on. > > Once I get the installer procedure perfected, perhaps you could > volunteer to build t