No DB interface included, not even ODBC. Team Haskell doesn't seem to understand (or care) what a barrier this is to mainstream adoption.<p>(Yes I know about HSQL but it's not exactly "batteries included" is it - compare Haskell to Python in this case)
This install 6.10.2, right?<p>I grabbed the generic source installer bundle.<p>When I run ./configure, it tells me<p>configure: error: The Haskell Platform version 2009.2.0 requires ghc-6.10.2<p>The requirement to have a working GHC in order to get a working GHC, while interesting, seems a perplexing roadblock.<p>But extra puzzling is the requirement to have already the same version of GHC that this is supposed to be installing.<p>What sense does this make?<p>I really like Haskell from what I've seen so far, but every time I try to explore something that requires more than one or two packages it feels like a test of cunning, will power, and patience to get all the right pieces and version in place.<p>(BTW, I have GHC 6.11.20090501 installed via darcs source. Apparently this is not enough:<p>./configure --enable-unsupported-ghc-version
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...<p>checking for GL/glut.h... no
configure: error: The GLUT C library is required<p>:(<p>I appreciate the effort and the ambition, but it's still too tricky.