OSX installer -- another status update

Duncan Coutts duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk
Sun May 24 19:51:53 EDT 2009


On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 10:02 -0400, Gregory Collins wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm making progress on the OSX installer front, torturously slow though
> it may be. I wasted most of Tuesday trying to bundle GHC's OSX installer
> inside the Haskell platform distribution -- it looks like GHC's
> installer is broken somehow as the GUI tools choke on it, saying "Could
> not unarchive package payload". This, despite cpio handling it just
> fine?

We can check with Ian how the OSX pkg is built, what versions of tools
he is using. Now is a good time to work this out since there will be a
new one for the ghc-6.10.4 release, so there's the opportunity to make
changes to details of how the pkg is built, or versions of tools used.

Duncan




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