GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

[Manuel M T Chakravarty]

Christian Maeder:
> Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:
>> What we really need is a proper .mpkg
>
> How about a simple disk image (.dmg) that can be moved
> around as long as the relative paths within the image remain the same?
>
> This would require to allow relative paths in package.conf files  
> (which
> would be useful, anyway). The wrapper scripts for ghc, ghci and ghc- 
> pkg
> could be easily rewritten.
>
> I'm not sure if ranlib needs to be called, whenever the archives are  
> moved.

A dmg makes it potentially harder to deal with readline and gmp, as a  
mpkg can embed other sub-packages.  Secondly, if you look at the  
installation process of binary distributions, it does run code in  
order to re-locate GHC.  With an mpkg we can have a post-install script.

Manuel