[Haskell-cafe] What features should an (fictitious) IDE for Haskell have?

Branimir Maksimovic branimir.maksimovic at gmail.com
Wed Dec 2 09:30:34 UTC 2020


On 2.12.20. 10:08 пре подне, Bardur Arantsson wrote:
> On 01/12/2020 22.59, Joachim Durchholz wrote:
>> Am 01.12.20 um 17:22 schrieb Tony Zorman:
>>> The second part is more of a "why has no-one packaged this for
>>> Debian/Ubuntu derivatives" (which I'm not sure is true anymore, but I
>>> don't use either so I can't check) shortcoming than a Haskell LSP
>>> shortcoming, don't you think?
>> I have switched to installing all IDEs to ~/bin/, and the experience has
>> become _much_ less painful - I couldn't care less about an Eclipse or
>> IntelliJ package.
>>
> Absolutely agreed from many many years of experience. It almost always
> ends up being less painful to just use the upstream's binary bundle (For
> the reasons you stated.)... but perhaps I've been spoiled by the
> (relative) good quality of Intellij IDEA's bundles.
>
>> For things like Perl and Python, things can be even worse because these
>> packages are geared towards running the distro, not towards developing
>> software with them.
> Same thing applies for Haskell on Arch Linux, for example.


On Arch Linux you can't build anything. Only if you use bundle not 
related to distro...

and compiler is set for dynamic libraries so you have to set up cabal config

and ghs-options to use dynamic. But anyway you can't build lot of 
libraries...

Greets, Branimir.

>
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