Haskell Platform

Haskell platform
Developer(s) Haskell Platform Infrastructure Team [1]
Stable release 2011.4.0.0 / December 2011; 2 months ago (2011-12)
Operating system portable
License BSD
Website http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/ The Haskell Platform

The Haskell Platform is a collection of software-packages, tools and libraries, which is to create a common platform for using and developing applications in Haskell. With the Haskell Platform, Haskell follows the same principle as Python: "Batteries included".[2] As of 2010, development is no longer in the beta stage.[3]

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Motivation

“ The quality of a programming language itself is only one component in the ability of application writers to get the job done. Programming languages can succeed or fail based on the breadth and quality of their library collection.[2] ”

The Haskell Platform aims at unifying Haskell Developing tools into a single package, consisting of a compiler, compiling tools and many standard libraries, therefore making it easier to develop and deploy full-featured haskell-driven applications. Although Haskell is itself a powerful language to handle complex programming tasks, it is useless (or at least less useful compared to other programming languages) without a huge base of libraries allowing for building upon.

Packages included

Currently it consists of [4]:

Deployment

It is available for Ubuntu 10.10,[6] Arch Linux,[7] FreeBSD,[8] Gentoo Linux (x86-64 and x86),[9] Fedora [10], Debian (stable) [11] and NixOS. One-click installers exist for Mac OS X[12] (only Intel) and Microsoft Windows (64-bit not supported)[13]

Versions

The Haskell Platform aims at a 6-months release cycle.[14]

2009.2

Included GHC 6.10. It is also the version considered to be included into Debian-stable.[11]

2009.4

The second major release in 2009.[15]

2010.1

Since 2010 the Haskell Platform is no longer considered beta, including GHC 6.12, featuring extensions from Haskell 2010. With this release 64-bit support on Mac OS X Snow Leopard was fixed.[12]

2010.2

First non-beta release of 2010

2010.4

Second major release of 2010.

2011.2

First stable release of 2011, including GHC 7.0.

Blue Sky

Blue Sky is the code-name of the upcoming next version.[16]

References

  1. ^ http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/Members
  2. ^ a b http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/papers/CPJS08.html
  3. ^ http://www.galois.com/~dons/talks/hp-status.pdf
  4. ^ http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/contents.html
  5. ^ http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/ghci-debugger.html
  6. ^ http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/haskell-platform
  7. ^ http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26279
  8. ^ http://wiki.freebsd.org/Haskell/Platform
  9. ^ http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-haskell/haskell-platform
  10. ^ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/haskell-platform
  11. ^ a b http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/haskell-platform
  12. ^ a b http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/mac.html
  13. ^ http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/windows.html
  14. ^ http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/ReleaseTimetable
  15. ^ http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/milestone/2009.4.0
  16. ^ http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/roadmap

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