ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.10.1 - MacOS installer

[Ian Lynagh]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 11:26:20AM +1100, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:
> Jason Dagit:
> >
> >What will I need to do to get both 6.8.3 and 6.10.1?
> 
> Are you sure it does deinstall the 6.8 compiler?

It definitely deinstalls it for me; I've just confirmed it.

Here's what I saw with a 6.9 OS X installer a while ago:


If I start off with 6.8.3 installed:

    $ ls -l /Library/Frameworks/GHC.framework/Versions/
    total 8
    drwxrwxr-x  4 root  admin  136 Jun 18 03:10 608
    lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin    3 Aug 29 12:57 Current -> 608

then while my GHC-6.9.20080828-i386.pkg is installing I see:

    $ ls -l /Library/Frameworks/GHC.framework/Versions/
    total 8
    drwxrwxr-x  4 root  admin  136 Aug 29 12:58 609
    lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin    3 Aug 29 12:57 Current -> 608

(i.e. 608 has disappeared, but it isn't the whole GHC.framework that's
been removed because the Current link is still there)

and then when the installer has finished:

    $ ls -l /Library/Frameworks/GHC.framework/Versions/
    total 8
    drwxrwxr-x  4 root  admin  136 Aug 29 12:58 609
    lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin    3 Aug 29 12:57 Current -> 608


Thanks
IAn