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What sucks is that Hackage has been down all day (and is down not infrequently) and I've needed it desperately. Also, Don Stewart's (evangelized by OP) 'Downlo

What sucks is that Hackage has been down all day (and is down not infrequently) and I've needed it desperately. Also, Don Stewart's (evangelized by OP) 'Download' package won't build on OS X, with a different cryptic error message than it gave me last week. Yes, these are piddly little whines of personal anecdote, and objectively it's absurd to suggest should be flawlessly and continuously taken care of by the Haskell establishment at this stage in its development, but Haskell is pretty quickly becoming my language now: I love it, I think in it, it is a daily struggle to fight the urge to evangelize like a douchebag. With the problems I've just mentioned, I'm writing what I need to in Python, hideously functional Python that would make Guido cry, but prototyping everything in Haskell. If this stuff is pissing me off, a momentarily curious Ruby bro sticking his neck out and cautiously circling the >>= in the stone is going to get bit, fuck off and not look back. Please build the cathedral soon.

dons 16y ago
> package won't build on OS X There is a binary installer. We're discussing how to work with MacPorts, but at the moment it only has 3rd party support status.
- jewbacca 16y ago
  ... whoa, that's pretty cool. Also, I feel like a douchebag. Thanks for building and sharing this stuff at all. Where's that binary at? Also, what's this about MacPorts? I only ever tried using cabal (as installed with Haskell Platform) and have no understanding of the structure of the underlying installation. As perhaps the prototypical semi-clueless amateur, potential vanguard of the article's "mainstream", who's stumbled early onto this serious and enormous thing, I am scared and confused by the idea of having to install MacPorts again to muck up my pretty filesystem.
  - danielmueller 16y ago
    http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/ http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/ Works like a charm! Only hitch I had was that the prebuilt libraries are 32bit, and if you want to link something to a native library under Snow Leopard, and said library happens to be available only in 64bit, you're out of luck. Case in point: I tried to customize XMonad under X11.app/10.6 with a custom xmonad.hs. Running straight XMonad worked fine, but trying to use the recompilation failed... -> Would be nice to have a 64bit Haskell Platform build. But that's probably a more exotic usecase as you'd usually either stay in Haskell-land (which compiles in a compatible way), or link against *nix style libraries, which you probably fetch via MacPorts, and there you can control the compilation as well. A big thank you to Don for the packaging effort, it's very much appreciated by newbies (incl. me).

dons 16y ago

> package won't build on OS X There is a binary installer. We're discussing how to work with MacPorts, but at the moment it only has 3rd party support status.

jewbacca 16y ago
... whoa, that's pretty cool. Also, I feel like a douchebag. Thanks for building and sharing this stuff at all. Where's that binary at? Also, what's this about MacPorts? I only ever tried using cabal (as installed with Haskell Platform) and have no understanding of the structure of the underlying installation. As perhaps the prototypical semi-clueless amateur, potential vanguard of the article's "mainstream", who's stumbled early onto this serious and enormous thing, I am scared and confused by the idea of having to install MacPorts again to muck up my pretty filesystem.
- danielmueller 16y ago
  http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/ http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/ Works like a charm! Only hitch I had was that the prebuilt libraries are 32bit, and if you want to link something to a native library under Snow Leopard, and said library happens to be available only in 64bit, you're out of luck. Case in point: I tried to customize XMonad under X11.app/10.6 with a custom xmonad.hs. Running straight XMonad worked fine, but trying to use the recompilation failed... -> Would be nice to have a 64bit Haskell Platform build. But that's probably a more exotic usecase as you'd usually either stay in Haskell-land (which compiles in a compatible way), or link against *nix style libraries, which you probably fetch via MacPorts, and there you can control the compilation as well. A big thank you to Don for the packaging effort, it's very much appreciated by newbies (incl. me).