[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform for OSX ?

[Giovanni Tirloni]

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 8:26 AM, dokondr <dokondr at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 3:48 AM, Rogan Creswick <creswick at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Giovanni Tirloni <gtirloni at sysdroid.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> 3) How to install it into a separate location so it would not ruin my
>> >> current platform?
>> >
>> >  You can install it under a different username.
>>
>
> Haskell Platform (HP) is installed for *all* users in one location at OSX:
>  /Library/Frameworks/GHC.framework/Versions/
> total 8
> drwxrwxr-x  4 root  admin  136 21 feb  2011 .
> drwxrwxr-x  5 root  admin  170 21 feb  2011 ..
> drwxrwxr-x  4 root  admin  136 11 jun  2010 612
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 user  staff    3 21 фев  2011 Current -> 612
>
> 1) How different username will help here?
>

I meant install new packages through cabal under a different username. The
cabal repo should be localized unless you specify --global

Please see Rogan's suggestions.



> 2) Is there any way to see what packages HP includes without actually
> installing it? Some online document listing HP packages?
>

http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/contents.html
http://lambda.haskell.org/hp-tmp/docs/2011.2.0.0/start.html

-- 
Giovanni
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