[Haskell-cafe] Self-contained GHC for Mac

[Carter Schonwald]

And more importantly: no one familiar with ghc is actively making sure the
ghc formula on brew stays kosher.

On Friday, May 30, 2014, Christopher Allen <cma at bitemyapp.com> wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','bob at redivi.com');>> wrote:
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>> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 5:36 AM, Alexey Muranov <alexey.muranov at gmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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