The Haskell Platform 2011.2 is out: GHC 7 for all

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.

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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

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