[Haskell-beginners] LTS is good but...

[emacstheviking]

OK, having installed it, am I now at liberty to use the LTS instructions to
once again attempt to start an OpenGL project?



On 4 March 2015 at 15:31, Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 4:32 PM Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 4:25 AM, emacstheviking <objitsu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> What is the *preferred* way to get the lastest for OSX: Using homebrew,
>>> macports or the Haskell Platform. I *used* to use the platform installer
>>> but for some reason (cabal I expect!) I started trying out other ways...
>>
>>
>> Depends on who you ask. I use MacPorts and keep it updated, but
>> please-root-me (aka Homebrew) is preferred by most people these days. You
>> will find people arguing that you should use the Platform and people who
>> insist you should always install just ghc and cabal, or people who insist
>> you shouldn't ever look beyond Stackage (great if Stackage bothers to
>> acknowledge that the library you need exists).
>>
>>
>>
> Just to clarify, because there seems to be some confusion in your comments
> on Stackage. When someone sets up a project to use Stackage[1], you still
> have full access to all packages on Hackage, there just isn't any way to be
> certain the packages will compile reliably (which is the case with
> installing from Hackage as well). And getting a package into Stackage is a
> simple, open procedure[2] which anyone is allowed to participate in.
>
> In other words: Stackage acknowledges the existence of every package on
> Hackage, and can provide build guarantees for any package that is added to
> its build-constraints file.
>
> [1] Minimal procedure: run `wget http://www.stackage.org/lts/cabal.config`
> <http://www.stackage.org/lts/cabal.config>
> [2] https://github.com/fpco/stackage#get-your-package-included
>
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