ANN: Mac installer pkg for GHC - 6.8.2.20080211 trial release (Leopard, Intel)

Yitzchak Gale gale at sefer.org
Tue Feb 12 08:04:02 EST 2008


Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:
> Finally, you can have the glorious GHC in a format satisfying the
> discerning Mac user

Fantastic news! Thanks!

> The GHC binary in the package links statically against GNU readline
> (to provide editing capabilities at the GHCi prompt).  This is fine as
> GHC's BSD3 licence is compatible with readline's GPL, and it does
> *not* affect programs compiled with GHC at all.

Thank you for clarifying this.

> The above package is for Intel Leopard... it should be possible to
> build packages on Leopard that run on both Tiger and Leopard.  (I
> could give that a try if anybody with a Tiger box is willing to play
> guinea pig.)

I volunteer. What do I need to do?

Thanks,
Yitz


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