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Re: Haskell-Platform



On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 08:14:49PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
 >   [why is haskell support not so good for NetBSD]
 > 
 > No particularly good reasons, other than that maintaining haskell
 > support is some combination of hard and not particularly popular.
 > Part of the issue is that there doesn't seem to be an easy way to build
 > a bootstrap haskell compiler.

The other big part of the issue is that even on a fast machine
building ghc takes hours.

-- 
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost


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