[Haskell-cafe] Self-contained GHC for Mac

[Christopher Allen]

Compilation time is a pain and using homebrew's GHC package could break
other homebrew recipes, particularly Ruby ones that rely on native
compilation.


On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 5:36 AM, Alexey Muranov <alexey.muranov at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Monday, May 26, 2014 2:23:34 PM UTC+2, Bob Hutchison wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>
>> Are there any drawbacks in installing Haskell with Homebrew?
>>
>
> Homebrew mostly works fine, but this self-contained version doesn't have
> any dependencies outside of Xcode and thus you can get it up and running
> much more quickly. Not everyone uses homebrew.
>
> -bob
>
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