ANN: Haskell Platform Versions Comparison Chart

[Simon Hengel]

Hi,
I compiled a chart that gives a side-by-side comparison of package
versions in various Haskell Platform releases.

    http://sol.github.com/haskell-platform-versions-comparison-chart/

This includes both, packages that come with ghc and platform packages.
Source is on GitHub[1].

Cheers,
Simon

[1] https://github.com/sol/haskell-platform-versions-comparison-chart

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[Soenke Hahn]

That's great! I think, it would be useful to include the version of the
shipped gcc (where applicable). Would that be complicated to add?

For windows, I looked them up once:

2011.4.0.0 - 4.5.0
2011.2.0.1 - 4.5.0
2011.2.0.0 - 4.5.0
2010.2.0.0 - 3.4.5

Cheers,
Sönke

Simon Hengel wrote:

> Hi,
> I compiled a chart that gives a side-by-side comparison of package
> versions in various Haskell Platform releases.
>
>     http://sol.github.com/haskell-platform-versions-comparison-chart/
>
> This includes both, packages that come with ghc and platform packages.
> Source is on GitHub[1].
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
> [1] https://github.com/sol/haskell-platform-versions-comparison-chart

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[Simon Hengel]

> That's great! I think, it would be useful to include the version of the
> shipped gcc (where applicable).

I think this only applies to windows**;  and I'd tend to put it into a
separate table.

But yes, open a ticket or send me a pull request (preferred!).

Cheers,
Simon

**  Not really suer about Mac OS X, but I think it requires Xcode, can
    someone confirm this.

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[Erik Hesselink]

On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 20:28, Simon Hengel <[hidden email]> wrote:
> **  Not really suer about Mac OS X, but I think it requires Xcode, can
>    someone confirm this.

Yes, the platform on Mac OS X requires Xcode, which includes gcc.

Erik

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[Simon Hengel]

> > **  Not really suer about Mac OS X, but I think it requires Xcode, can
> >    someone confirm this.
>
> Yes, the platform on Mac OS X requires Xcode, which includes gcc.

Thanks.

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[wren ng thornton]

On 3/18/12 5:08 AM, Simon Hengel wrote:
> Hi,
> I compiled a chart that gives a side-by-side comparison of package
> versions in various Haskell Platform releases.
>
>      http://sol.github.com/haskell-platform-versions-comparison-chart/
>
> This includes both, packages that come with ghc and platform packages.
> Source is on GitHub[1].

Nice. Any chance you could get the packages sorted alphabetically so
that it's easier to look things up directly?

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[Simon Hengel]

> >This includes both, packages that come with ghc and platform packages.
> >Source is on GitHub[1].
>
> Nice. Any chance you could get the packages sorted alphabetically so
> that it's easier to look things up directly?

Sure, now they are sorted alphabetically (case-insensitive).

Before it was more like two alphabetically sorted lists
(case-sensitive), GHC boot libs first, and platform libs second
(determined by the latest release, exactly what `ghc-pkg list` gives
you).

Ideally boot libs and platform libs would go into two separate tables,
but packages may move between those (e.g. syb did).

Cheers,
Simon

PS: If directly means manually, than I'd strongly advise against doing
    that ;)

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[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Sonntag, den 18.03.2012, 10:08 +0100 schrieb Simon Hengel:
> I compiled a chart that gives a side-by-side comparison of package
> versions in various Haskell Platform releases.
>
>     http://sol.github.com/haskell-platform-versions-comparison-chart/
>
> This includes both, packages that come with ghc and platform packages.
> Source is on GitHub[1].

nice, and much prettier version than
http://people.debian.org/~nomeata/platform.html

Do you see a way that you could incorporate distribution information?
You could maybe parse and (optionally) present the information that
Hackage reads, e.g. http://people.debian.org/~nomeata/cabalDebianMap.txt
for Debian?

Greetings,
Joachim

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[Simon Hengel]

> Do you see a way that you could incorporate distribution information?

I thought it would be nice to have a second table that correlates
Platform versions with distro releases, because I think this is relevant
to package authors.

Regarding information about Debian sid, I'd like to understand the exact
use case.  Can you elaborate on that?

Cheers,
Simon

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[Sergey Khorev]

> I compiled a chart that gives a side-by-side comparison of package
> versions in various Haskell Platform releases.

Nice stuff but I cannot see alex or happy there.

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[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Dienstag, den 20.03.2012, 18:40 +0100 schrieb Simon Hengel:
> > Do you see a way that you could incorporate distribution information?
>
> I thought it would be nice to have a second table that correlates
> Platform versions with distro releases, because I think this is relevant
> to package authors.
>
> Regarding information about Debian sid, I'd like to understand the exact
> use case.  Can you elaborate on that?

one use case is developers who use distro packages and want to tell
others against what version of the platform they develop their code
against.

Greetings,
Joachim

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[Simon Hengel]

Hi Joachim,

> > Regarding information about Debian sid, I'd like to understand the exact
> > use case.  Can you elaborate on that?
>
> one use case is developers who use distro packages and want to tell
> others against what version of the platform they develop their code
> against.

I'll not add that myself, but I'm happy to add a link to a friendly
fork.

Cheers,
Simon

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