HP comments from the State of Haskell survey

[Don Stewart]

cpatti:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Gregory Collins <greg at gregorycollins.net>
> wrote:
> 
>     Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> writes:
> 
>     > cpatti:
>     >>
>     >>     So what patch does the binary installer have, that the generic
>     installer
>     >>     doesn't?
>     >>
>     >>     Let me know.
>     >>
>     >>     -- Don
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> I have no idea - the installer is a binary - are there sources for it
>     around
>     >> somewhere? If so I or someone else with a contributor bit should get the
>     patch
>     >> into the generic source tarball.
>     >
>     > Yes, the Mac installer sources are here:
>     >
>     >     http://github.com/gregorycollins/haskell-platform-osx-installer
>     >
>     >     http://github.com/gregorycollins/cabal2macpkg
> 
>     Keep in mind that this cruft is unlikely to help you with the MacPorts
>     stuff because we use the GHC upstream installer and that code is
>     tailored towards working with OSX installer .pkg files.
> 
>     G
>     --
>     Gregory Collins <greg at gregorycollins.net>
> 
> 
> 
> My goal is simply to get the 'generic tarball sources' to build, because that's
> what Homebrew consumes and what is currently breaking on a linker error.
> 

I've got a Mac ssh server now, so testing ...

-- Don