target audience for the binary distribution

[Carter Schonwald]

its important to note that this is still  a release candidate!  Your
feedback means we can try to support you better with the final "OFFICIAL"
7.8.1 release! :)

seriously, thanks for taking the time to try out the RC, please holler with
any other issues you hit


On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 1:43 PM, davean <davean at xkcd.com> wrote:

> As a Debian user, I always do a home directory install. I also am root.
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 1:33 PM, harry <voldermort at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm unable to install the binary distribution of 7.8.1 on RHEL because it
>> requires libgmp.so.10 and GLIBC_2.15, which are much greater than the
>> version available on Red Hat. (I'm on a shared system without root access,
>> so upgrading libc is out of the question, even if it could be done.) If
>> this
>> is what most users would like, I certainly don't want to be the Luddite
>> trying to hold them back.
>>
>> Who actually are "most users" for the bindist? Debian & derivatives have
>> the
>> latest GHC in the package repository, so it's presumably Red Hat & Co, and
>> people without root. If the bindist is only relevant to rootless users on
>> a
>> modern Debian derived distro, is it targeting the right audience?
>>
>>
>>
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