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Question? I'm an ubuntu/xmonad user. I also do some occasional haskell coding. I've been using the packaged versions of xmonad and the haskell platform thus fa

• jmillikin 16y ago
  For most of my Haskell work, I just use the standard GHC package, with libraries installed in clean environments using ``cabal-dev``. Compatibility with Ubuntu-packaged libraries, such as xmonad or mtl, is too important to trade away for a new GHC. For testing against GHC 7, I built from source and installed to ~/.opt/ghc_7.0.1 -- over the next few days I'll probably grab 7.0.2 and install in the same way. This is only for testing -- I don't built software against it, generally. Building GHC from source is actually very easy -- just install the development packages, then ./configure && make . There's instructions in the GHC tarball.
  • zmanian 16y ago
    I'll probably follow this strategy. I'll wait for the entire package structure to be revved in the next ubuntu release hopefully. I'll run ghc7/cabal-dev from a portion of the home directory not in my path