Re: Haskell-Platform

To: Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost>
Subject: Re: Haskell-Platform
From: David Holland <dholland-pkgusers%netbsd.org@localhost>
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 01:51:17 +0000

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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