[Haskell-cafe] Ease of Haskell development on OS X?

[Ross Mellgren]

While there is not a .dmg for Gtk2Hs, you can use a .dmg installed GHC  
with a .dmg installed Gtk, and then build gtk2hs straight on top of  
that, without having to deal with the dual-GHC macports mess..

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Gtk2hs#Using_the_GTK.2B_OS_X_Framework

-Ross

On Mar 20, 2009, at 2:10 PM, Jeff Heard wrote:

> cabal-install works for me.  The one thing that would be REALLY REALLY
> nice (and I'm cc-ing Duncan on this) is a .dmg for Gtk2Hs on Mac OS X.
> There exists a ports build for it, but it won't use the GHC that is
> installed via .dmg to build it - it insists instead on installing ghc
> again via ports, which I find both odd and undesirable.  It really
> comes down to the fact that gtk2hs is the only thing in the
> haskellverse that requires ports to get compiled in an intuitive way.
>
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> wrote:
>> tom.davie:
>>>
>>> On 20 Mar 2009, at 18:46, Don Stewart wrote:
>>>
>>>> tom.davie:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 20 Mar 2009, at 18:08, Don Stewart wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> tom.davie:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Other than chose the graphics card carefully, an iMac will do  
>>>>>>> you
>>>>>>> very well.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hope that helps.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is very useful.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Could the Mac users add information (and screenshots?) to the OSX
>>>>>> wiki
>>>>>> page,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/OSX
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not really sure there's much to add.  It mostly just works™.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there something that can be extracted from this discussion to  
>>>>> add
>>>>> to
>>>>> it?
>>>>
>>>> Imagine you're new to Haskell, or the Mac. What do you need to  
>>>> know to
>>>> get started developing new Haskell software? Is that information on
>>>> the
>>>> page?
>>>
>>> Thankfully, yes, all you need to know are either (a) go to  
>>> haskell.org
>>> and download it, or (b) download macports, and port install ghc...  
>>> Now
>>> you've got a Haskell environment like any other.
>>>
>>> I guess I could add a chunk of text about good editors, but I'm  
>>> not sure
>>> if that's suitable, is it?
>>
>> Yes, anything that is relevant to the development experience on this
>> platform. Remember: it is more than just getting ghc. How do they get
>> hold of new libraries and apps? Is cabal-install available?
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