David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost> writes: > On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 02:59:17PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote: > > Let's call a cat a cat. Haskell is a lab experiment gone wrong. > > Yeah, that's great. One could even go further and say that nobody > should ever use it for serious software development. Nonetheless, it > and ghc remain things used from time to time, often in a research > context; I don't think ghc should be removed from pkgsrc just because > it's aggravating to package. I agree with both of you - I think it's useful that ghc is in pkgsrc, even though Haskell is in practice so unportable what I would have to recommend against using it, and recommend against using tools that are written in it: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1226
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