[Haskell] installing streams library

[Sebastian Sylvan]

On 5/20/06, Chad Scherrer <chad.scherrer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Bulat. I'm looking forward to trying it out this weekend.
>
> Is there any indication what fast IO approach might work its way into
> the standard libraries? It would be nice for idiomatic Haskell to be
> really fast by default, and I'd love to be able to show off the language
> shootout implications to coworkers.
>
> Cabal doesn't seem obvious to me. Currently my uninformed point of view
> is that the whole thing is too complicated to be worth the benefit it
> provides. Since it generally seems popular, I'm guessing that means it's
> either much simpler than it seems, or else the benefit provided is just
> enormous. Can anyone point me to a sales pitch, or provide some
> motivation for me to RTFM?
>

A quick sales pitch: usually you, the library user, can just type:

./runhaskell Setup.hs configure
./runhaskell Setup.hs build
./runhaskell Setup.hs install

And it will Do The Right Thing(TM), which is nice.


/S

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