I'm running feisty.<br>
ryan@0pt1mu5:~$ ghc --version<br>
The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.6<br>
<br>--ryan<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dougal Stanton</b> <<a href="mailto:ithika@gmail.com">ithika@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 22/04/07, Ryan Dickie <<a href="mailto:goalieca@gmail.com">goalieca@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> Many of the haskell packages including darcs, ghc, and well over 100 other<br>> packages (mostly libraries) are in the package manager ready to be
<br>> installed.<br><br>The problem with Ubuntu (at least until the Feisty release a few days<br>ago?) was that GHC wasn't up-to-date by default; it came with 6.4.<br>Moving to 6.6 isn't a difficult feat (the generic binaries from the
<br>GHC site seem to work fine for Edgy, if you install libreadline too)<br>but being behind that curve is noticeable. If you want to stay on the<br>cutting edge Gentoo takes a lot of the hassle out of it, since you can<br>
use the repository stored on <a href="http://haskell.org">haskell.org</a>. The downside is having to<br>keep the rest of the system updated if you've got a slow machine.<br><br>You pays your money, etc.<br><br>D.<br>_______________________________________________
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