runhaskell rather than runghc

Serge D. Mechveliani mechvel at botik.ru
Sun Sep 30 06:10:45 EDT 2007


On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 11:08:19AM +0200, Bas van Dijk wrote:
> 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
> 

I looked into it. 
I cannot solve, what is better, would dot think of this now.
The GHC developers see pro and contra, and let them decide.

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