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

[Michael Snoyman]

Yes.

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015, 6:10 PM emacstheviking <sean at objitsu.com> wrote:

> 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:
>>
>>> 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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