On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:37:45 +0000 Duncan Coutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 13:32 +0100, Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo) wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:46:58 +0000 > > Duncan Coutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 12:42 +0100, Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo) wrote: > > > > > > > This is a valid issue, as ghc is only supplied upstream for > > > > linux (some older versions available in mingw32). > > > > > > I don't think this is right. All the recent ghc versions have been > > > supplied upstream on many OSs including installers for win32 and > > > OSX. The OpenBSD, FreeBSD & Darwin ports systems include ghc. > > > > Sorry, yes - I looked at the snapshot download pages where it's > > linux and mingw32) instead of the release download pages (where > > it's linux x86, x86_64, ppc, ppc64 and windows, FreeBSD x86, > > OpenBSD x86, MacOS X and AIX). > > > > However the issue still remains for non-x86/ppc platforms; sparc in > > particular is likely to be used as a dev platform by some. > > I use ghc and darcs on my sparc box all the time. ghc-6.4.1-r2 is > currently marked stable on sparc. darcs is currently marked ~sparc. Ahem. Sorry again - I still didn't look at the right page! http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_641.html lists sparc, hppa, and also alpha, m68k & s390 on debian. > I'm currently working on ghc for ia64 since Aron Griffis was > interested in using darcs on ia64. It's looking good so far. > > As Flameeyes pointed out our main problem is with the various > Gentoo/ALT systems where we don't have quite enough developer time to > allow ghc to get near the top of the TODO list (though we do have it > working with ppc osx). > -- Kevin F. Quinn
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