Re:The Haskell Platform 2011.2 is out: GHC 7 for all
by jmillikin on Thursday March 10, 2011 @04:55PM
(#2310970)
For most of my Haskell work, I just use the standard GHC package, with libraries installed in clean environments using ``cabal-dev``. Compatibility with Ubuntu-packaged libraries, such as xmonad or mtl, is too important to trade away for a new GHC.
For testing against GHC 7, I built from source and installed to ~/.opt/ghc_7.0.1 -- over the next few days I'll probably grab 7.0.2 and install in the same way. This is only for testing -- I don't built software against it, generally.
Building GHC from source is actually very easy -- just install the development packages, then ./configure && make . There's instructions in the GHC tarball.
Re:The Haskell Platform 2011.2 is out: GHC 7 for all
by zmanian on Thursday March 10, 2011 @06:12PM
(#2311223)
I'll probably follow this strategy. I'll wait for the entire package structure to be revved in the next ubuntu release hopefully.
I'll run ghc7/cabal-dev from a portion of the home directory not in my path
I'm an ubuntu/xmonad user. I also do some occasional haskell coding. I've been using the packaged versions of xmonad and the haskell platform thus far.
Are people building from source? Waiting for Natty? Using a ppa?