Comments on: Another reason to create distro-specific packages for Haskell modules http://therning.org/magnus/archives/522 Incoherent mumblings Wed, 08 Aug 2012 00:21:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Don Stewart http://therning.org/magnus/archives/522/comment-page-1#comment-171383 Don Stewart Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:37:15 +0000 http://therning.org/magnus/archives/522#comment-171383 An excellent reason: proper packaging (documentation, profiling)! Besides this, it makes it cheaper to start using new Haskell apps (since their libraries are already packaged for your system, and you can get the binary without GHC being needed), and the native packages track non-Haskell dependencies (such as C libraries) properly.

All around, well done distro packages provide a better experience for non-Haskellers, and drive adoption of Haskell in new domains.

All the more we can do to bring Haskell into the mainstream.

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