Policy question re: Haskell Platform installer on OSX

Don Stewart dons at galois.com
Mon Jan 12 16:38:33 EST 2009


greg:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm currently writing a program to take Cabal libraries and turn them
> into OSX .pkg files, for the Haskell platform's Mac installer.
> 
> Where should the libraries be installed? The current GHC installer plops
> them down into /Library/Frameworks/GHC.framework/Versions/xxx/usr, and
> my thinking is that I'll keep it that way so that we can piggyback on
> GHC's uninstall script. Otherwise the platform project will need an
> uninstaller of its own.

Yeah,   I'd make sure you can use ghc-pkg with the libs. That's what all
the other unix distros do.


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