[Haskell-cafe] Self-contained GHC for Mac

[Bob Ippolito]

On Monday, May 26, 2014, Bob Hutchison <hutch-lists at recursive.ca> wrote:

>
> On May 26, 2014, at 9:08 AM, Richard Cobbe <cobbe at ccs.neu.edu<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 08:23:22AM -0400, Bob Hutchison wrote:
> >>
> >> On May 23, 2014, at 2:42 PM, Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> After seeing some demand for packaged Haskell for Mac for the IHaskell
> project and by word of mouth at BayHac I decided to take a stab at it. Here
> you go:
> >>> http://ghcformacosx.github.io/ (currently GHC 7.8.2 and cabal-install
> 1.20.0.1)
> >>>
> >>
> >> Thank you! Wonderful!
> >>
> >> I think this is the way to go for anyone setting up Haskell for the
> first time on a Mac. I agree that this should be a very prominently
> displayed installation option on haskell.org
> >
> > Asking purely out of curiosity: what's the advantage to doing this over
> > using the Haskell Platform installer?  (Other than the fact that the
> latter
> > hasn't seen a release in a year, I mean.)
>
> That’s a pretty good reason :-)
>
> Have a look at this thread “Minimal Haskell Platform”
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/haskell-cafe/-MrmFsyq-FM for a
> lot of discussion. There have been other threads in various mailing lists
> touching on this recently.
>

In addition to that, you can only have one Haskell Platform install and you
need admin to install it. With this, you don't need admin and can have as
many "installs" as you want (although it won't save you from .ghc or .cabal
hell).
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