[Haskell-cafe] Self-contained GHC for Mac

[Erik Hesselink]

On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote:
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> On Monday, May 26, 2014, Bob Hutchison <hutch-lists at recursive.ca> wrote:
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>> On May 26, 2014, at 9:08 AM, Richard Cobbe <cobbe at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
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>> > On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 08:23:22AM -0400, Bob Hutchison wrote:
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>> >> On May 23, 2014, at 2:42 PM, Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote:
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>> >>> 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).

I have three platforms installed. As long as they have different GHC
versions, there's no problem, I think. Should I be aware of something?

Erik