HP comments from the State of Haskell survey

[Don Stewart]

wmacgyver:
> I have a stupid question.
> 
> Does building ghc/haskell platform requires some special voodoo?
> 
> Since the binary distro for haskell platform clearly works for OSX.
> 
> But why is it that both macports and homebrew seems to
> never work like clockwork?
> 
> I use macports for erlang, python and heck, even sbcl.
> and it's updated pretty timely and builds out of the box every time.
> 
> I can understand with python is due to the large size
> community, but surely erlang/sbcl on OSX can't be a
> much larger community compared to haskell user?

I'm not sure there is an active MacPorts maintainer -- while we do have
an active Mac installer maintainer.

Any volunteers?

-- Don