From 70338b9a32a51f90e5f9e184bd336d95a5f486b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sam Halliday Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 16:54:13 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] fixup! add How back --- README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index d526cff..f1819c5 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/haskell/ghcup.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/haskell/ghcup) [![license](https://img.shields.io/github/license/haskell/ghcup.svg)](COPYING) -[`cabal-install`](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal-install) follows the UNIX philosophy of [do one thing and do it well](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy#Do_One_Thing_and_Do_It_Well): it builds your project and downloads your dependencies. However, `cabal-install` does not download `ghc` if one is needed ([it can demand that a specific version of `ghc` is available](https://cabal.readthedocs.io/en/latest/nix-local-build.html#cfg-flag---with-compiler)). Unfortunately, many operating systems do not offer a way to install multiple versions of `ghc`. +[`cabal-install`](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal-install) follows the UNIX philosophy of [do one thing and do it well](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy#Do_One_Thing_and_Do_It_Well): it builds your project by managing your dependencies. However, `cabal-install` does not download `ghc` if one is needed, although, it can demand that [a specific version](https://cabal.readthedocs.io/en/latest/nix-local-build.html#cfg-flag---with-compiler) of `ghc` is available. Unfortunately, many operating systems do not offer a way to install multiple versions of `ghc`. `ghcup` makes it easy to install specific versions of `ghc` on GNU/Linux, and can also bootstrap a fresh Haskell developer environment from scratch.