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Haskell support? #781

Open mcandre opened 6 years ago

mcandre commented 6 years ago

Could we get a package going for GHC and Cabal for SmartOS, so that SmartOS users can benefit from Haskell applications like ShellCheck?

jperkin commented 6 years ago

ghc-7.6.3 is available, and I believe it comes with cabal. Newer versions of GHC are not yet available as they are hostile to packaging and it will be a lot of work to integrate as they changed the layout of how modules are installed.

Given the difficulties in packaging GHC, especially around their binary bootstrap requirements which excludes a large number of pkgsrc platforms, there isn't much interest amongst the existing pkgsrc community in working on it, so if anyone out there does have interest in Haskell we'd certainly welcome contributions.