[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Platform on Ubuntu

[Simon Marlow]

On 08/07/2009 00:17, George Pollard wrote:
> 2009/7/7 Matthias Görgens<matthias.goergens at googlemail.com>:
>>> Karmic (9.10) will have GHC 6.10.3, possibly 6.10.4.
>> It currently spots 6.10.3, in the alpha release I run here.
>
> A major problem is that the libraries are still for 6.8.2, so you
> cannot install the required libs to install cabal. Grr.

My understanding is they're waiting for 6.10.4 before recompiling all 
the libraries, because it's a big job and they don't want to do it twice.

Cheers,
	Simon