runhaskell rather than runghc

Bas van Dijk v.dijk.bas at gmail.com
Sun Sep 30 05:08:19 EDT 2007


On 9/30/07, Serge D. Mechveliani <mechvel at botik.ru> wrote:
> Dear GHC and Cabal developers and users,
>
> I suggest to use  `runhaskell'  rather than  `runghc'.
> Because it looks to have more sense, and also for political correctness.
> Cabal is a tool for `making' various Haskell implementations.
> In 2015, we may have implementations  ghc, Hugs, hbc, foo_1, ..., foo_n.
> Does Cabal need to provide  runghc, runhugs, runhbc ... runfoo_n ?
>
> Do I mistake?

Earlier this year, Sven Panne provided[1] a good reason not to
directly install 'runhaskell':

[1] http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2007-March/012173.html

regards,

Bas


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