Malcolm Wallace <[email protected]> writes: >>> The platform installer is supposed to erase previous platform >>> editions before it installs itself. > > I would consider that a serious bug.
"Lacking a feature I would consider essential" /= "a bug" in my opinion, especially when the desirability of the feature is in question. I have enough legitimate bugs to deal with as it stands. > The Haskell Platform is not like a standard user application, where it > would be reasonable to have only one version installed at a time. If > you are a software developer, it is frequently essential to have > several different versions of the development environment (compiler + > libraries) installed simultaneously, so that you can adequately > support users who have different versions of your own software. We'll have to disagree here; I'd consider this a "power user" feature. After all, the platform libs can be acquired by other means than the turnkey binary installer. The OSX package system is so insane that I can barely get the thing working to begin with, even after making a bunch of simplifying assumptions (like "we don't need to support multiple platform installations"). That said, I'm not at all opposed to having this feature, if you can explain to me (or even better, provide code for) a reasonable scheme for doing it that isn't going to make this project even more brittle than it already is. G -- Gregory Collins <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
