HP comments from the State of Haskell survey

[Don Stewart]

cpatti:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> wrote:
> 
>     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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> FWIW the Homebrew formula is just fine.
> 
> It encapsulates the generic source tarball, which fails to compile under OSX
> latest.
> 
> It's also actively maintained, and when I pursued the error with them, they
> correctly indicated that the problem was up stream in the Haskell Platform
> distro.
> 
> So, this is the root problem here.
> 

So what patch does the binary installer have, that the generic installer
doesn't?

Let me know.

-- Don