[Haskell-beginners] haskell-platform on arch

[Michael Xavier]

Thanks guys. I must have been a little confused by the difference between
platform and GHC. I was reading the Yesod book at the time which I think
(probably erroneously) mentions GHC 7.2 alongside recommending Haskell
Platform, which does not seem possible.

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 1:29 AM, Vesa Kaihlavirta <vpkaihla at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Bernardo Barros
> <bernardobarros2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The last release of Haskell Platform has ghc version 7.0.3. There
> > is nothing outdated in arch...  You may be referring to the ghc
> > 7.2, right? It is not in Haskell Platform yet.
> >
> > ── >> pacman -Ss haskell-platform extra/haskell-platform
> > 2011.2.0.0-4 [0.00 M] [installed] The Haskell Platform
>
> Yes, that's the reason why our ghc is lagging so much. In fact, we
> have plans to stop supporting the platform mainly for this reason.
>
> In the near future (hopefully in a month or so), the our extra
> repository would only contain the latest stable ghc (currently at
> 7.2.2) and cabal-install (plus its deps).
>
> --vk
>



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