Distributions

Last checked platform version: 11 June 2015

Linux

dpkg-based

dpkg is Debian's package manager.

Debian

• Latest Platform: 2014.2.0.0
• Package: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=haskell-platform&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all
• Contact: Joachim Breitner [email protected]

Ubuntu

• Pulls packaging from Debian
• Latest Platform: 2014.2.0.0
• Package: https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=haskell-platform&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all
• Contact: Joachim Breitner [email protected]

Mint

• Another Debian derivative, forked from Ubuntu
• Latest Platform: 2013.2.0.0
• Package: http://community.linuxmint.com/software/view/haskell-platform
• Contact: ?

RPM-based

rpm is the Redhat Package Manager and is used by several distributions.

RPM packages are largely compatible between distributions. http://justhub.org/ seems to once have provided an alternative Haskell distribution targeting Redhat-based distributions.

Redhat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

• Redhat's commercial offering, packages are typically quite old
• Latest Platform: ?
• Package: Not sure as I've not been able to find a publicly accessible package index
• Contact: ?

CentOS

• A community-supported variant of RHEL, fairly widely deployed in the server space.
• Apparently once again under the control of RedHat as of 2014
• Latest Platform: ?
• Package: Again, no publicly accessible index
• Contact: ?

Fedora

• Redhat's community offering
• Latest Platform: 2014.2.0.0
• Package: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/haskell-platform
• Contact: Jens Petersen [email protected]

Arch

• Packaging effort is abandoned
• Latest Platform: 2013.2.0.0
• Package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/haskell-platform/

Gentoo

• A source-based distribution
• Latest Platform: 2014.2.0.0
• Package:
  • There are two sources for this package.
  • Main repository: http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-haskell/haskell-platform
  • Overlay: https://github.com/gentoo-haskell/gentoo-haskell/tree/master/dev-haskell/haskell-platform
• Contact: Sergei Trofimovich [email protected], Alexander Vershilov [email protected]

NixOS

• Sadly Platform packaging effort seems to have stalled
• Latest Platform:
• Package: http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixpkgs/trunk/haskellPlatform

BSDs

OpenBSD

• Uses Portsorg/search?keywords=haskell-platform
• Latest Platform: 2014.2.0.0
• Package: http://openports.se/meta/haskell-platform
• Contact: Matthias Kilian http://openports.se/bbmaint.php?maint=kili|a|openbsd.org

FreeBSD

• Uses Ports
• Latest Platform: 2014.2.0.0
• Package: http://www.freshports.org/devel/hs-haskell-platform/
• Contact: [email protected]

Mac OS X

Homebrew

• Ruby-based package recipes
• Latest Platform: None
• Platform packaging effort abandoned
• Looks like it wouldn't be too hard to revive using homebrew-binary

MacPorts

• Similar to BSD Ports
• Latest Platform: 2014.2.0.0
• Package: https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/devel/haskell-platform/Portfile