[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform for OSX ?

Albert Y. C. Lai trebla at vex.net
Wed Nov 9 21:38:16 CET 2011


On 11-11-09 06:37 AM, dokondr wrote:
> In case I upgrade to the latest Haskell Platform, what will happen to
> packages already installed  in my ~/.cabal folder? Some of these are
> quite old and most probably will be incompatible with GHC 7
> Does upgrade process remove old  and create anew ~/.cabal folder?

Every GHC version ignores libs built by other GHC versions.

In short see ~/.ghc

In long see my http://www.vex.net/~trebla/haskell/sicp.xhtml

~/.cabal is hardly the whole story or the major story. More people need 
to learn that.



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