[Nix-dev] "Package archeology" in nixpkgs

[Nikita Karetnikov]

> - NHC: can build it with HBC

According to [1], it can be bootstrapped via C.  If I remember
correctly, I successfully built it this way in the past (outside of
NixOS).

> How do people feel about this?

I think it’s a great idea.  I always wanted to try HBI, which “supports
the full language at the command line.” [2]  But I have no idea where to
get the source.

[1] http://www.haskell.org/nhc98/download.html
[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4084790/compilers-for-haskell/5918876
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