HP comments from the State of Haskell survey

[Don Stewart]

cpatti:
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> 
> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> wrote:
> 
>     The following comments about the Haskell Platform appeared in the
>     State of Haskell survey.
> 
>        http://www.johantibell.com/files/state-of-haskell-2010.html
> 
>        * I also think Haskell platform isn't getting enough push. People still
>        think to try Haskell means install ghc. It doesn't help that both
>        haskell platform and ghc in various linux distro as well as MacPorts
>        gets lagged behind badly.
> 
> 
> ...
> 
>        * The Macport's portfile is outdated for the haskell platform, and it is
>        still at 2009.2.0.2
> 
> ...
> 
>        * Also, the multi-platform issue is a big stopper for me. I'm developing
>        on Linux and Windows, maybe on Mac. Mac supports is simply broken,
>        Haskell platform does not install. On Windows, many packages relying on
>        C libraries simply do not work. On Linux, Ubuntu does not have official
>        up to date packages
>        programming life much simpler.
> 
> 
> 
> It's worse than that.  The current Haskell-Platform doesn't build at *all* on
> current MacOS version.  This has percolated downstream to packaging systems
> like Homebrew, and leaves people like me who would love to try their hand at
> Haskell either giving up, or grudgingly downloading the binary release (which
> thankfully works).
> 
> A bug has been filed on this, but it seems like noone has the time to fix it:
> http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/ticket/34

Surely the binary installer works. Are you specifically talking about MacPorts?

-- Don