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0 pointsmetreo5y ago0 comments

I think Haskell versioning is highly bifurcated.

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You mean like SemVer vs the default whose name I can't remember?

I mean like installing and managing multiple versions of the compiler toolchain is painful.

I mean, it's all pretty well automated by stack, the only painful part is that it can take a long time and use a lot of storage.

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tome5y ago

Is there something about ghcup that doesn't do the job for you? You ask it to install a particular version of GHC and Cabal for you. It does it. Multiple versions can exist together. Job done.

https://www.haskell.org/ghcup/

shirogane86x5y ago

the default is pvp [1] and I think most packages use that and not SemVer? or, at least, I can't remember off the top of my head of specifically pinning a package with SemVer.

[1] https://pvp.haskell.org/

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